One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

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.

[BURR]I am the one thing in life I can control.

If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.

Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!

It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.