We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.

You need a Democratic Party which is a grassroots party, which makes decisions from the bottom on up, not just from the top on down.

You've got to be able to sell yourself.

If there was anybody I could meet that I have not met, I would say David. David from the Bible. He was a mighty man of God, and he was a warrior, and he was a worshipper.

My handsome Knight of Night came over to me and kissed me softly on the cheek.

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil

I think skating helped me find myself.