And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.

Be like snow - cold, but beautiful.

Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud.

I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?

Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

The Secret to Focusing on your Dream is to touch it every single day of your life.

Worry:Interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do.

...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD

I do not know when it was, nor where it was, nor how young I may have been, but I can recall. . . a sudden feeling of happiness at hearing the voice of the pines.

We must not stand upon trifles.

All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.