I'm not macho. I'm very open about things. I don't try to hide my feelings.

It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.

You can make yourself happy.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

You can become something you don't want to become, but it's a change, a new phase. Hopefully one you want.

You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.

There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

There are people that will try to hurt you and hold you down.

Boldness comes from curiosity.

There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right.

Disrespecting disrespect is not disrespect

Each new day offers the chance to start afresh, to achieve those things you most desires.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

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Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

My idea of the perfect man would be someone intelligent and clever enough, but also kind and compassionate enough to stand up to me - to stand up to me with compassion.

Only those who must bear the consequences of a decision have the right to make it.

Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person

There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.