Let me say the good are often punished unfairly.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

When I write I am the real me.

The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.

Are all American girls as daft as you, Rachel?" "I hope so," I said.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.

The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.

My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.

My friends and family and team know who I am, and they have my back. So I don't let someone who doesn't know me affect me.

In the off-season you like to take a little time for yourself, but I'd like to say that people say I live in the weight room and that I had the keys to it. That's just the type of character I am.

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.