I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.

Never give up on what makes you smile

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.

I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.

See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

In fact she was quite bad and according to Jas she was naughty at school, but no one seems to remember that now she is all dead and perfect.

Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.

You can do something really radical, which is turn your phone off and reclaim your private life.

When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

I love rock and roll, so put another dime in the juke box, baby.

In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming.

I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing.