Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.

Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.

We're not words, Henry, we're people.Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.

That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them.

Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.

I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.

But that's the difference between people and stars. A star's light still shines even if there's no one to see it, but without someone to remember Jesse, his light will disappear.

How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness.

Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.

You should really smile more Miss.” “Smiling Is overrated.” my voice as sharp as a knife, my voice deadpanned, as I sulked at the wall.

You mean run away? Wolves don't run from a fight." Rebecca Winters in Lone Wolf Rising

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

And you work for that demon, right? The one who looks like Matthew Broderick?” “John Cusack,” I corrected. “He looks like John Cusack.” “Whatever.

I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style.