I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

I can express myself.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

You can’t do something forever.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Opportunity makes a thief.

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

I’ve learned never to say never.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

What is once well done is done forever.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.