Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.

I definitely like to stay active. Im a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.

There are so many quirky characters, its easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on The Carrie Diaries.

There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response.

I think what makes someone pretty amazing is being comfortable in your own skin.

I miss being able to call people back instead of having to text them that I can't talk right now.

I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all.

Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?

I have the strength to endure it all.

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.

You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.

Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely.

There are reports on the news tonight that members of the Taliban feel persecuted and fear their own safety. So now they know what it is like to feel like a woman in their country.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

I think it's a problem if you don't compensate people that have got no money, because I really feel you're exploiting them.

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.