That was the worst truth of all: alone. The word was a kind of death.

Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out--anger is momentarily easier to cope with.

You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.

How quickly a moment sinks into the past.

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

Successful teaching is not head-to-head

You cannot break any of God's laws, you can only break yourself.

When you happy ,you get locked in sleep. You get sleepy happy. I always wanna be on point. I always wanna be aware.

I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.

People say that I can't speak French. C'est pas vraiment placé. I'm getting better every day. I just have to keep practising. That's the truth.

I have a pretty wide range of musical tastes.

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.