Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

An effective life is a fulfilled one

I would much rather have a life filled with magic than one filled with the mundane.

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.

The awakening is finally realizing that you are a part of God, like a single cell that finally sees it is a part of you.

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.

There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.