I see myself as a mascot for the kids who get beat down and don't feel like they belong.

It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful.

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks.

I like being broken. It means I can have chocolate for breakfast.

For every person that likes you there is going to be a person that doesn't like you. It's the nature of humanity.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story

I don't think I'd really be alive without it, in all honesty.

I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.

For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.

I think I'm nervous to sign on to any job.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.

Being grown up is boring. Besides, I don't get jazz.

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.