The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

He was smarter than most, more sensitive. In that regard he was more prepared for the loneliness of senescence than she was. He'd been a stranger in the world for most of his life.

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved. You are loved with your head down. You will be loved whether you finish or not.

As far as he was concerned, there were only two all-important laws on earth:1. Don’t murder people.2. Never swear in front of Lilly.

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

An actors real job is going on lots of auditions! When you book the job that's the fun part!

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

I was freaking out. I had my first pimple and I was like, what is this? I didn't know what to do with myself. Now it's all gone, but it's so weird, what you put inside of your body.

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

To me, horses and freedom are synonymous.