My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.

Basically the most fun part about the first day of anything is buying all the supplies.

The coolest thing you can become is yourself.

I'm from the ADHD generation, to be honest - I genuinely was on Ritalin in middle school - so I'm most comfortable with a hundred things going on at once. It's deadlines that get pesky.

The thing I miss about performing is being with people.

I think for me the trick is not to aim to impress or to even try to make people laugh but instead to tell the truth.

There's maybe nothing nicer than somebody just coming straight out and showing you they like you.

My sense of the past is vivid and slow. I hear every sign and see every shadow.

Suicide is not a choice, it is what is left when everything else fails.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

In America, the first thing we have to get rid of is entitlements for the wealthy, and at the same time, open up the economy to the disadvantaged.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

Consistently practice love and everything that falls under the category of love: gratitude, laughter, friendship, joy, forgiveness, acceptance, peace, and trust.

We are all bastards but God loves us anyway.

My memories of events and games are fragmented.