My brothers used to beat me up, but I used to fight my sisters 'cuz I couldn't hit them back, so I had to find specific severe ways to punish them.

I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.

I live to die; better that than to live a lie.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.

The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

It didn't take a synthetic mind to decipher Caleb Shepperd, just a human one." ~ #1001

They explored me high enough as mountain climbers reached the mountain tops.

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.

Don't water your weeds.

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.