One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

It's the quiet little hit that is succeeding totally under the radar, ... NCIS.

Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.

You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

As long as experiencing your optimal level of good stress doesn't damage others, it's hard to objectively define where normal enjoyment of stimulation becomes adrenaline junkiehood.

For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win.