Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.

Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.

No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.

the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books

It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.

She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.

The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.

Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony

Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

I want to make big-sounding pop records.

When I reach to the edge of the universe, I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery, there are times when, at least for now, one must be content to love the questions themselves.

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.

I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.