The viola and the clarinet made for an interesting pairing: we had to imagine the accompaniment of other instruments, ideally a violin and a cello.

I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.

Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.

You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.

I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why. Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school, ...I went to school high.

I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.