When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

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.

There is an incredible beauty in your touch, it can heal the gravest wounds. And in your smile, that can easily mend any broken heart.

Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home.

Not until your dreams begin like a dream, it may not have the potentials to become life.

Even tied up, he was stronger and more commanding than any man she'd ever met.

All cats are gray in the dark.

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.

In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track.

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.