It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Set your soul in search of th he truth.

True love has her own language.

I hate my stomach. It's impossible to get it flat, and the area around my belly button drives me crazy.

I've always loved food too much to be a model.

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.

The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.

People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced.