Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

I want to become a person that is frank and pure with a healthy energy, a person with an unpredictable charm who acts accordingly regardless of what clothes I'm put in.

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.

I certainly admire people who do things.

Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.

I didn’t want to kill girls… even vampire girls. Though I might make an exception for that blonde.

When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.