Music is a writer's heartbeat.

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

Life can't always be good, and life can't always be bad. That just holds true. I've learned a lot from that statement, and I think about it, all the time.

It's hard to fall in love with somebody, and then break up and not have feelings for that same person.

I just try to go out and play as hard as I can and let the results take care of themselves.

Growing up, I realized that fame is not what you think it is. It's a little bizarre. You have to learn how to cope with that and figure out who you are.

You know I don't care about what I eat. I love food so much, I can't affect the way I eat.

When you struggle, you're going to be a little discouraged. But I never felt like I was overmatched.

I like girls with a good sense of humor.

I believe when actors say they can go crazy playing the same role, over and over again.

Teen Wolf has more heart then Buffy

Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

Invest time that will compound forever.

What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides.

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it.

In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.