Maybe we were too broken to put back together. Maybe we’d been too broken to ever put together in the first place.

If snowflakes are like people, how is anyone lucky enough to find anyone in this world.

I plunged into him, kissing him like I was flame and he was wood, our tongues igniting

We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.

The simplistic ideas in which the unbeliever ends up believing are his punishment.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

Success is like a mirror: It reflects back to you exactly what you held up before it.

Don't be scared. I'll look after you.

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings would break and the instrument be shattered into fragments.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.