Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last?

You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.

The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.

I should probably start with the blood.

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.

But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time

Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on.

In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.

God heals as well as God kills.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand.

When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized.

I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.

In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope!

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.