I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.

I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I have to say, "I'm down here.

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

Comparing yourself to others does nothing for you. Society has conditioned us to value people who fit a secular mold of perfection".

Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity can not exist.

no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.

I enjoy being surprised.

The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.

If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it!

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.