My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.

What I must do is all that concerns me,

To have something does not mean to understand it.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

If you have children in your house you have Frosted Flakes.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.