I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

Perhaps there had been joy for them in finding that sugar could be made from blood.

Sure, stories can be like a fire on a cold night. But they can burn too. There ain't nothin' can cut deeper or sting with more poison than words can.

I teach my students that you can't be a journalist if you are going to be judgmental. If you have a judgmental nuance as you pose a question, people will close down.

I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

I just don't really want to settle and I don't think I should have to.

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.