I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.

I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.

I'm terrified of being bored and not learning.

I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don't look squeaky clean.

Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl.

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort.

The idea of giving someone something that I got, that makes me feel sad.

My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

The attitude of others towards you is the reflection of their state of mind.

When the focus becomes ‘What would Jesus do?’ instead of ‘What has Jesus done?’ the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.

I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life."

The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities,reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

We must die to become true human beings.

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read