The problem was I always took the blame. But he was wrong. But I thought me taking the blame could fix it.

They always come back, but we don’t always answer.

I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don’t understand it, that’s fine.

I didn’t fear you. I feared us. I feared what could have been. I feared what could be. I feared the connection we had between each other. The toxicity because I could grasp the danger.

We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.

If I had amnesia, I know I would fall in love with you all over again.

The fact that neither of us made sense was the beauty of it.

I think we might’ve met in a past life. You know, one of those you pass and think, wow you’re kind of beautiful. Just one of those.

I romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too.

To fall in love with pain is to fall in love with art.

You didn’t understand the poem, but that was because it wasn’t for you. It was for me to understand the pain you put me through.

Lee explained to her that art for art’s sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can’t be living a life driven by need and desire.

You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies

Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.

I would rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.

You have to comply, you have to obey - or you'd better resign and leave. But that is also the mark of a great leader - somebody who, in the presence of inner conflict, will do the right thing.

Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness.

Some poems are art because of their passion.

In business, organization is an absolute necessity, not an alternative.

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.