Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

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.

One of the main secrets of success is the ability to foresee the situation a few steps forward.

The era of revolution by military means produced a greater degree of desperation and frustration. This was brought to an end by the people.

He’s not wearing…” Charlotte began.“I know. He doesn’t, ” Lydia answered.

there is something beyond materialism that's called humanity and relation.

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

The fact is, 'Billy Elliot' is an incredible show, for any age and any gender. 'Degrassi' fans would absolutely fall in love with 'Billy Elliot.'

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.