The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

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.

Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future.

It is extremely obvious to me that the internet is a religious phenomenon

Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you all the time.

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do

For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

Instead of looking for love, let it happen by being the best you that you can be.