When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.