I was pissed that I couldn’t go out and celebrate like someone turning twenty-one typically would, so I wore black hair to show my family just how pissed off I was.

I’m not scared of death, Dad, ” I told him. “I’m scared of not living. I don’t want to die with any regrets that I didn’t get to do the things in life that I’ve always wanted.

We’re not dead yet, so don’t talk to us like we’re about to be.

Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.

Did it do me any good, early in life, to believe so many things which were not true? Or did it damage me? Pouring a foundation of disappointment, of uncertainty.

Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

What you say should not just be truth now, but should be a proven truth tomorrow.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000.

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.