We continue to love in spite of the pain, tears & heartbreak. Perhaps the pain makes us stronger, the tear makes us braver & the heartbreak makes us wiser.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

Every living cell in your body is made from the food you eat. If you consistently eat junk food then you'll have a junk body.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

I don't want...to run away by myself... because no matter what...I'd rather be together with everyone...

Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day.

Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.

My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.