People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

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.

Write. Write write write write WRITE. Write. Now.(This is an inspirational writing quote.)

Noble ancestry makes a poor dish at table.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals.

I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.

Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.

Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.

New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.

...an old man is twice a child.

In making a movie, you're part of a big machine. Even in a small movie there are still so many people involved in the process, and it costs so much money to make.