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

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.

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".

It's Unfair to be fair, For Life is unfair

Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

All that we are and all that we've ever felt, words have felt it first.

The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.