What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

At its best, this is my calling. At its worst, it is a mad compulsion that I just can’t shake.

I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.

If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

You know what, the thing that breaks my heart is that there's no way I can answer it without hurting someone on either side.

I definitely would never go back to my 20s. The best is yet to come.

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.

Straight to the top, rooftop glows. With a hand full of girls and they all so foreign. Brain so poisoned, rainbows flowing.

The important thing is that the worst is over, ... Now comes the reconstruction.