Positive self-talk is to emotional pain as pain pill is to physical pain.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Sometimes you literally need some pressure on your shoulder, to fetch the best in you...

Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it.

When I see people of my likeness, or who are somebody that I feel connected to, doing something great, I fee like I can do it. It gives me some hope and vision.

going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way

I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.

It's vital to understand that while you are alive, there is no end to desire, since the seed of your every thought and your every action is a desire.

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.