So much of love is imagination -- its over-activity, its over-ambition, its over-the-top faith.

Success can be defined in many ways but failure in only one ... quitting!

Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?

Cease to be a drudge seek to be an artist.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

I dated a teacher in high school. Yeah, it didn't make me cooler. And a lot of you are like 'that's cause you were homeschooled'.

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing, I feel like your common every-day neurotic.

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.