She clung to the memories of her youth as if they were the only way she could save a piece of her soul from whatever it was she was about to face.

He wanted to crumple her up and toss her from his mind like a scrap piece of paper filled with nonsensical doodles or dissonant words that formed unbalanced rhymes. Yet, he refused throw her away.

I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich.

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

The amount of competition is just literally insane.

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

If substantial methyl hydrate melt begins to occur in the Arctic Ocean basin, then the (carbon) accelerator will be jammed, and there will be nothing we can do to cut the speed of climate change.

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product, and of which these are among the transitory expressions.

Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.

Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal reserves.