I'm sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it's certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create.

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.

Never give up on what makes you smile

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.

I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.

See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

You may be wrong at first

I'd ask you to think outside the box on this, but it's obvious your box is broken. And has schizophrenia.

I burn, I shiver, out of this sun, into this shadow.

Tigerclaw stared in disbelief. Was the life of his son dependent on an ancient medicine cat and an arrogant kittypet?

I want people to know that I'm a real person, and that I've been through normal situations, like crushes and heartbreaks.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

There is desperate education inequality in America, and I think every kid deserves a good teacher and a good school regardless of the ZIP code that he or she lives in.

When you continue to give without receiving, the only thing you are proving is that you know how to be taken advantage of.