When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have a voyeuristic experience; we have an out of the body experience. The screen is more real than our thoughts are at the moment we are looking at the film and we place ourselves in the place of the people on the screen, and when they behave nobly, it makes us feel noble, when they are sad and when they have lost love, we feel sad; we can identify with that.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Friends don't let Jackasses drink and drive.

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know.

To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep in our hearts that if anyone truly got to know us, they'd truly get to love us - or at least know why we're the way we are. The problem in life, maybe the central problem, is that so few people ever seem to have sufficient curiosity to do the job on us that we know we deserve.

We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.

Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.