I’m not looking for fate. I’m seventeen. I’m looking for kissing, and to move forward a few paces on the game board. You know, do some Living. (With my lips.)

What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.

I don’t believe in prayer, but I do believe in magic, and I want to believe in miracles.

Life doesn’t need magic to be magical.(But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)

The eye’s perception of texture is pale compared to the lips’, and I didn’t know what velvety was until I knew it with my lips. Oh, kissing. Oh, violin boy.

I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm's length and carry me to the trash. Who is this sack of slush masquerading as me? It's intolerable.

CHOAM is business and business follows profits.

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

Listen to my story and everything will come out true

If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

England...the greatest and the most glorious and beautiful land on earth.

I think it's important for us to allow ourselves to be in creative bubble when you really need to finish something. You can always re enter the world after, once you feel like you're done with it.

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.