authenticity Quotes

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.