I've never really made a big deal out of my birthday.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.

Follow your heart and don't question it, no matter where it tells you to go It will open up a world of experiences you can't even imagine.

People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special.

Animals don't have a voice, so I think it is our job to give them one.

I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

I think the best way to invite people into the conversation is to just create something beautiful out of love, and people naturally gravitate towards a new way of looking at fashion.

I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.

She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.