I had to brainwash myself, like what I was doing was going to be really, really good, and then just accept whatever happened.

I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.

I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.

I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.

If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

You can't be a free spirit in a place that feels like it was built on lockdown.

For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.

I hope that I'm the kind of person who would step in between somebody holding a gun at somebody else. I would like to be that stupid. I'd like to be that in love with life.

I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And it was my secret thing and my passion.

Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It's not interesting.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Leading: Superlative leaders are fully equipped to deliver in destiny

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.

Love fattens on smooth words.

Haters can't see me, but them b-tches still looking for me.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.

There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we are born with.

Marriage is a wonderful thing.

Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.