“You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.”

“If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.”

“Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.”

“Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events—they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn’t have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don’t even notice at first, and then one day it’s there. You wake up and you just don’t have the fire anymore.” He smiled...”

“If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.”

“Who would you be but who you are?”

“What you write chooses you.”