Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird.

Don’t condemn me to the prison of your bullshit.

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

What is about women that they just go right for the guy that repulses them?

Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.

I can be tough on actors, but I also let them know early on in our relationship what I expect from them.

I wouldn't say I fear the future.