... misfortune and creativity go together.

... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.

Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.

I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together.

Your career is your business.

Rick Steiner is so stupid, he once stayed up all night to study for a urine test.

Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness.

A hand cannot write on itself.

We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.