I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

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.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

God schedules a birthday, not man.

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

We are the sum total of our experiences, be they positive or negative, they bring out the best or worst in us and make us the person who we are today and what we will be in the future.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.

I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.