For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.

I want to push myself to be brave and out of my comfort zone, but I guess I stay in my comfort zone knowing I have my family close by.

I'm strong and I can do things that scare me. I can drive in the snow even though it terrifies me. I'm doing it all alone, I don't have a boyfriend, it was like, "I can do this."

The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.

[My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.

Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.

I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix.

I keep re-watching Friends. It's so dumb. There's so much good TV and I'm really into all of it.

I'm really close to my family. As I get older, it's like they're the only people I really talk to.

I would swear that I could practically hear crickets in the ensuing silence, if not for the fact that the stale air probably kills anything that requires oxygen to breathe.

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

Therefore, the only way Donald Trump can protect himself is to set up a blind trust or to divest in these holdings. It's the only way.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

The most important thing for me to succeed in is day by day becoming a better and more prepared person.

Presidential power is the power to persuade.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.