The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.

Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.

Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

Image has an influence on what sort of car I will get to drive or deals that I'm offered by teams.

I'll be spending the holidays with my family. Nothing special, just some light bickering and biting sarcasm.

I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.