People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Enthusiasm is highly contagious, so what are you waiting for? Contaminate your students

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

I can’t believe I thought this was going to be boring. This is great!

I write for ghosts

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

When you're being told that you're good at something, you start to believe them and then you forget about your hopes and dreams.

Everything is an illusion.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.