I normally don't regret. I enjoy everything, even if it's bad or good.

Just let me live my life.

I wish I could have built without destroying things.

If you open yourself as an artist, as a human being to this experience of growing, you grow anyway.

Not many people understand that, but if you open yourself to listening - you don't even have to exercise - you get better with time.

Artists are kids. I feel like I'm six years old.

What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist.

I feel like I'm getting stronger and stronger, and I don't practice as much as I used to.

As an artist, you have a choice. That gave me the freedom to do what I want to.

I wish I could, instead of destroying things like that, I wish I could build, build, build.

Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.

Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence.

Do not fight with your brother. There are things that God expects us to fight for, true. But string is not one of them. Do you understand?

I am terrible at making food. I love eating, but I can't make anything.

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

"Okay," I said,hoping I sounded confident, like taking the life force out of ghouls was one of my favorite hobbies, right up there with knitting and sudoku.

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.