Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield.

One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.

I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.

I think I needed to be really hurt on the outside so the hurt on the inside would realize that it wasn’t on its own and that it had to come out.

The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.

I did get lost but I wanted someone to find me.

I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.

What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.

People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.

But Neve, you can’t start a book and leave it halfway through, ’ he’d said implacably. ‘It’s almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.

I smile. I smile all the time, but you're just not around to see it these days".

Holy freak show!

I was delighted that by campaigning throughout England, Scotland and Wales, addressing in all 39 public meetings, I had contributed to the victory of the Conservative Party at this general election.

Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.

My mission is to kill; whether it's the Heat, whether it's the Lakers. Hopefully both. That's my mission, and that's what I'm here to do.

I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.

Success is a worn down pencil.

The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.

I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.