If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else is going to. So go for it. Find what makes you happy and do it.

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.'-Jace'Just break the door down, will you?'-Clary

Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

In the 1930s, there was a stretch where you could borrow more against the real estate than you could sell it for. I think that's what's going on in today's private-equity world.

How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?

It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

I think people who are concerned about the alt right are properly focusing on making sure it doesn't get mainstreamed, because it shouldn't be.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?