Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

You could say that all of life is a series of last chances.

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

Yesterday I soared above the clouds. Today I'll walk the earth again.

Write from your heart, write with blood and courage.

And in the fearless, reckless pursuit of intimate love, it is not the destination it's the journey.

The audience is never wrong.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

Art is not that much needed in life, we only need sleep and food. But why do people want art? Because they want to feel emotion! So emotionally moving things is great art to me!

By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.

I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

The source of joy is within yourself. Unless and until you seek yourself you cannot seek God.

That's one of the benefits of working with a smaller network like IFC. You're awarded more trust, but trust that I really earned.