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

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.

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

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.

Poisons are more my thing

Every day is a messenger of God.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

I never really separated painting and literature.

Loneliness is a required course for leadership.

Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

I hope I dont give music a bad name.

Say, thou art mine; and ever, My love, as it begins, shall so persevere