Whenever I look at me, all i see are things I'd like to change. Whenever Damon looks at me, all he sees is a glorious gift from the universe somewhere in the middle lies the truth.

Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

We meet the people we’re supposed to when the time is just right.

Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.

You never know what you have till you've lost it.

I’m always thinking about what I’m missing. Even when I’m happy with what I have.

The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly. And in my case, they're barely speaking.

I was a beautiful vampire princess loved, worshiped and admired by all. I lived in a luxurious gothic castle and I have no idea how I ended up at this fiberglass table with you losers.

Let my country die for me.

What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, will create some of the worst restrictions we place on our lives.

Once you’re on the pleasure express, it’s hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.

There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Education and water should be a human right.

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

If you can't sent money, send tobacco.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.