Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

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.

A novelist must believe he can outdo himself. Or his creative drive would die.

He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.

She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.

There are never enough I Love You's.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

Hillary Clinton needs to address the racist undertones of her 2008 campaign.

It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.

The viewer brings all additional information to the image.

Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.