I felt wise and cynical as all hell.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Music is a medicine that is self prescribed.

There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music.

Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape. A tree cannot be given form by the vagaries of the wind.

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.

For me, making any kind of resolution or saying, "I'm doing this!" can only cause pain, to get very deep.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

I read the script [Havenhurst] and I went to bed, but I woke up because somebody had knocked on my door. Or at least it seemed like somebody knocked on my door at, like, 4 in the morning.

If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?

Keep your eyes out for #‎ magical moments, they're everywhere! Live with passion today and everyday!