We are always telling stories to ourselves, about ourselves...But we can control those stories...I believe that! Events in our life have meaning because we choose to give it to them

I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.

You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down an inheritance.

People can find patterns in all kinds of random events. It's called apophenia. It's the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

For the hand of a beauty with honest words and sensibilities so mighty.“Though your mother and father had hoped for something more fragile (and flighty),

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a very sensitive, interesting guy.

I think Jo Kwon is my nemesis, because he looks like me.

my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all.

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.

New wave disco was coming to the fore then, and we were at a different point entirely. I like to listen to dance music, but I don't think I'm primarily a dance music writer.