You get better at working by working. And if you don't work, you're not getting better.

Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.

Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice.

Never stop! Slow down sometimes, but never stop!

I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.

It ain't easy being cheesy!

You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections.

The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.

It's great to be strong but strength is nothing without having compassion.

Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity

I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist.

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.

You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

I find love is more of a bacterium than a virus unless you are comparing it to herpes.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.

The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.

My friend Taylor Swift’s new album, 1989.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.