“Your life will get better when you realize it's better to be alone than chase people who don't really care about you.”

“It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.”

“...maybe, if you're lucky enough to have someone who really cares about you, someone you can trust, someone who reminds you to believe in yourself, you can survive absolutely anything...”

“I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.”

“Experiencing life makes you a better writer, and writing enhances your experience of life.”

“Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.”

“If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?”