Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

I was in the emergency room twice with heart palpitations and panic attacks. As one of my actor friends pointed out: your body doesn't know that you're making art. You think about struggle and challenge and you imagine yourself weighing 302 pounds and being restricted and in despair. Your body doesn't know that that's not the case.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.