I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

There are many things in science that were developed because it was possible rather than desirable. Humanity's curiosity will almost certainly be its downfall.

Sacred being is beauty.

Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so.

When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.