I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

Every journey starts with fear.

Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you.

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be... because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!

There is nothing more important and precious on earth than the opportunity to love and appreciate.

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

Grandma, everyone out here is bleaching their anuses. What do I do?"Her advice? "Baby, go outside in the sun and squirt a little lemon juice on it.

I cared not a whit whether Time were “a form of thought, ” or an aspect of reality, or (this was later) compoundable with Space. What I wanted to know was: How it got mixed?

so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again...

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.