Nothing is given to you.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.

The problem with human beings is that they can't sit alone in a room for more than an hour.

The idea of social performance, that we're always performing identities, is something I got fairly obsessed with. I think it's probably because I am a person who went to 15 different elementary and middle schools. I moved all the time, often having to run out in the middle of the night because my mom couldn't pay the bills. There were schools where I'd be the poor loser kid. There were schools where I'd suddenly be the smart kid or the cool kid, although that was very seldom.

Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger

When it comes to fertility, there are so may things that have to go right. In any one individual, there might be one major problem and two minor ones or no major ones and seven minor ones. Throw in another person's physiology, and it's complicated. I try to give people the knowledge that they can make as many changes as they want.

One could draw up all different kinds of adversity depending on what your weakness is.