I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

Who knows you more...your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure.

Where's your sense of misadventure?

Forget about 'Going Viral' and 'Go Give Value'.

Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience.

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.

Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again.