I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

Thinking and planning is one side of life

Be careful of those who would only be around you if they are doing better than you. People of such nature would likely become your worst enemies if you start doing better than them.

We develop more empathy, when we realise that we are all ultimately looking for the same things - love, peace and acceptance.

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

I've never been prudish.

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.

We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts.

Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.