If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

I believe that life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive.

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.

I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.

I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.

I try to never look back at how I dressed in the first few seasons of 'Laguna Beach' because it was pretty bad... head-to-toe bad.

A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.