Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.

Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates.

It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

You only live once, so enjoy the ride.

A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.

Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.

Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves.

Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.

The past is a shadow, so I hid in the darkness. Little did I know I was made myself the unsuspecting prey of unseen predator. For only in light can you can you see what is dark.

It was almost romantic, in a mad-inventor sort of way.

everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while.

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.

Autumn arrives in the early morning.

These girls... they're going to kill me, Harry.

I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is.

The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards.

Cooking is revolution and creation.