How to stop time: kiss.How to travel in time: read.How to escape time: music.How to feel time: write.How to release time: breathe.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.

Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on.

Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

That kind of monotony that running generates - the one soundtracked by heavy breathing and the steady rhythm of feet on pavements - became a kind of metaphor for depression.

One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.

The way out is never through yourself.

I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive.

Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.

A million people a year kill themselves. Between ten and twenty million people a year try to. Worldwide, men are over three times more likely to kill themselves than women.

Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.

I seek and search for the light of knowledge.

This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?

Confusion is a weapon that is used by others to gain a temporary objective or advantage.

When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously.

I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.

To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

I just feel my best when I'm all glammed up.

Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.