For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

For me, education—both teaching and learning—is about building relationships and developing rapport with students, with parents, and with faculty.

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

If beating ourselves up worked, we would all be thin, rich, and happy, wouldn't we?

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

I represent the mixed race community, which I think gets left out a lot. I always describe myself as being mixed race.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.