I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

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.

The moment you stop chasing happiness, you become happy.

That sense of contributing to a community is never more rewarding than when you discover something that you believe can improve your readers’ lives by changing what and how they think.

I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.

No. Don't you do this to us.

I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.

If you’re taught you can't do anything you won't do anything, I was taught I could do everything.

I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.

Never be put off by your target's anger; it is a sure sign of enslavement.