inspiration

"Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter."

"Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world."

"You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come."

"There must be something I am doing that will make sense to somebody some day."

"The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it."

"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire."

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."

"Never follow the crowd."

"I don't need your money, I don't need your belonging, all I need from you is to make me feel that I'm valuable and significant to the world!"

"The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward."

"I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me."

"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."

"Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie."

"There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it."

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."

"Don't count your owls before they are delivered."

"What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did."

"It is better for the heart to break, than not to break."

"I am the only force strong enough to stop me."

"Time is what keeps things from happening all at once."