I think that I've been trying for a long time to feel like I am supposed to, instead of what I actually am.

I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter.

Sometimes your music sounds like there’s too much inside you. Maybe even you couldn’t get it all out. Maybe that’s why you died. Like you exploded from the inside.

I don´t know anyone who has a perfect family to start with. And I think that´s why we make up our own. regular weirdos together. I feel that way about my friends.

People love you for what they want to see in you, not for what you are. That's a sad thing to learn.

Words can't be wood enough for a lot of things. But you know, I guess we have to try.

If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meaning of either?

There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language.

For the shadows to stop growing. For people to stop being angry.

How could she just leave me here to live without her? I miss her so much. I love her. I want her to grow up and become who she was meant to be. I wanted her to grow up with me.

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

Whatever mistakes her son might make in life, Cindy was sure God would have mercy on him. The church, she feared, might not.

What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Greatness comes with discipline.

We need a serious leader to deal with this. And I believe I'm that guy.

Growth creates complexity, which requires simplicity.

What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .

The movement must go beyond its leaders

Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.