My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Friendship's enemy is betrayal.

Who said you to give up on your bold dreams? Don't you know that the universe is with you to help you achieve all your bolder visions?

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie

If you are expressing gratitude then you are in the present moment. If you are in the present moment then you are expressing gratitude.

Education is all about igniting young minds and enabling them to attain their fullest potential.

This bundle of ideas that we have held as being who we are is not actually the one who can make progress in the spiritual realm.

Successful presentations are understandable, memorable, and emotional

I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.

I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.