All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.

I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so destined for.

I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen.