Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.

I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery

Intelligence is not a moral category.

Even in front of nature one must compose.

But no one can ever say I didn’t sing.

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

I always knew I was going to come home at some point, and I wanted to have a name for myself.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

When things get tough... Make good art.

America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic. We're not a direct democracy.

You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.