In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

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.

Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!

Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

Galen recognized, with some considerable puzzlement it seems, that Christians exhibited the virtues that he associated with the discipline of philosophy.

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.

Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and the leaf.

Celebrities have to get their cars washed just like everybody else.

But my friends are happy for me. The people who know me are happy. My mom is happy. My family is happy.