The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Self-trust firms up your inner territory and grounds you with solid premises for believing in who you are.

A funeral is no place for secrets.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere…including in branches of the U.S. government.

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.

Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research. Eugenics.

Long as I live Long as I breathe With every heartbeat I'll need you near me

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.