I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as ‘too long.

You really have to let me fight my own battles. You can't constantly second-guess me and try to protect me. It's stifling.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Love is the highest of all qualities we can experience.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.

Life's too short to be working with divas.