The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet.

Admitting pain humbles us to the reality of our personal histories and our present conditions. We no longer have to pretend we are something that we are not.

Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds.

The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.

By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.

Never lose sleep over someone who is not worth staying awake for.

Better is the enemy of best.

I wanted to be a rock star.

Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.

They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.

I’m a Jersey girl, no one can knock me down