I'm just living my life and I’m being the best mother that I can and showing that on Teen Mom because that's what that show is about.

When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.

I waited a lot of years and I dealt with a lot of criticism about certain things on my face, and once I turned 21, I still felt that I wanted to change that, so I did.

I have no relationships and I'm, like, sad sometimes.

I’ve learned that although our dreams may die, if you open yourself up to life, new ones are born.

Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage.

Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

People might want to think, "We don't need it," but you know, we can't stop it. It's a movement, which means that it's moving, whether you like it or not, it's going to move.

It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.