I tried being anorexic for four hours and then i was like, i need some bagels.

I think it's important for people to know that it's okay to feel like you're not better as long as you keep trying.

I don't take crap from anyone, so that makes people think I'm rebellious. I'm not. I'm just not a pushover.

There's nothing else I would rather do, unless there was a profession that involved cuddling bunny rabbits and kittens all day for money.

I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

I like people's attitudes more than fashion or beauty or whatever it is.

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

I don't think I'm a weirdo in a bad way. There's just a lot going on in my head.

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

No matter how hard they try, they'll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination.

The desideratum of the philosophy “better to have never been” is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

I started with small-press publishers, who were willing to publish all sorts of forms. I didn't move to the larger presses until they knew what they were getting in for.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.