"I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream."
"The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully."
"We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success."
"Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated."
"I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone."
"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."