Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.

Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.

Life becomes a dilemma when you are living a purposeless and goalless life

Self-destruction is an art

Your mind is beautiful. No matter what problems people say you have, every mind is capable of writing something inspiring and beautiful.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity the intolerable labour of thought.

I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.

The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

In time and with water, everything changes.

Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. Thats why you are called a Christian. If you remove Christ, theres only ian and that means I am nothing.

My advice is that you should use your brains more and train less.

I have butterflies in my stomach.