The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you

The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.

Listen to the tree; it tells you where it wants to go!

Writing is taking human experience and wrapping it up into a package of your own ideas and hoping someone will pull the bow smiling on top to see what's hiding inside.

I love drums and still play frequently.

This is such a pivotal moment in my life! I'm transitioning as a woman, and I'm finally able to express myself as I am.

It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.

Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.

And so, now things that are important are, for example, the upcoming elections. It's important that society demonstrate that it is not pretending that these elections are elections.

I feel like a lot of comedies out are just the same consistent joke.

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.