What's great is my parents aren't stuck in the '60s. My dad is so into the culture of today.

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

Open your window with joy and allow all of the love come in to touch your heart.

When I give the best of me, that becomes my legacy.

It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm." "Voyons, do you think that is what I like?

Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.

Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.