You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

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.

It takes time for the things to manifest. Everything needs necessary energy for its manifestation.

Endure the times for a better tomorrow.

Seeing someone read a book you love is seeing a book recommend a person.

If you try to bring 'teen drama, ' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.