People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Football is a sad game.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.