Knowledge does have a way of making you an outcast.

Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement.

How could I possibly try to pretend the sunlight doesn’t exist, now that it’s taken so much of me?

I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.

I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.

Maybe all you can do, when your world is burning, is hold on to the thing you love the most.

I'm friggin' awesome! So screw the haters!

I follow, always, because its the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when Im certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are one person broken in two.

My sister has the heart of an artist with a hatchet and an eye patch. And I, we both now know, have a heart that is undeniably, irreparably different.

He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.