But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more, until my heart is strangled and broken.

Memories, real and irreplaceable, all of them. The happy ones, the bitter ones, the terrified and the poignant.

You crave chaos. You're happiest when the world is in an uproar. You thrive on madness. Even when your magic is at its best when it's the catalyst to confusion. You still can't admit this?

You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance.

Now, you listen, Alyssa Victoria Gardner. Normal is subjective. Don't ever let anyone tell you you're not normal. Because you are to me. And my opinion is all that matters. Got it?

When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.

Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to work and bring about productivity.

As for me all I know is that I know nothing.

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

Sunshine always inspires me.

I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.

My strokes just weren't there.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.