Your father leaving your family, that's your bedrock for all your future relationships and that's your security when you're a kid.

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

Your body hears everything your mind says.

Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real.

You only get to be a victim once. After that, you're a volunteer.

Slow down, simplify and be kind.

You're only a victim once. The next time you're an accomplice.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!

People always say 'They [teens] need a good talking to.' I've never agreed with that. A kid needs a good listening to.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

Cooperation is the redeeming ability of man to be better than himself.