All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who think words will make me feel better.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.

But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.

(Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.

I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.