I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

He loved me and I loved him, but the number in my head was telling me that he was going to die today. And the numbers had never been wrong.

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

After they had skated around the pond several times, my father asked my mother to marry him. I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then.

Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath in the way that tragedy becomes tragedy.

You've read some of the poems in this new unpublished book [Walker's Alphabet], e.g., the poem "C." I have a number of poems whose titles are letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.