Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti

There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

When you stop growing you start dying.

On cable TV they have a weather channel - twenty-four hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.

When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

I just don't think [Payne] was the right time to do it, maybe. It was timing, not so much that it was executed wrong.

I think everyone is beautiful in their own way.

I really wanted to talk about the War on Terror and say that both sides were completely incompetent [in addressing it]. You can't blame the other side when you're involved in it.

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

If you're buying something from Chanel, you want it perfect, and delivered on time.

One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.