I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

I would never see him again. But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him. Now I had only to trust in myself.

I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we're out there. Trust me.

Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.

You may not be able to find love, but if you give, you will get it back in return.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

God gives us resources according to our dreams and according to our obedience. And God doesn't give those resources until we've started walking in obedience.

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Within one generation, Los Angeles will be uninhabitable if people don’t do something about it. The world is going to get smaller and be uninhabitable and impossible to live in.