...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when you're older—lots of people will try to tell you what to think and feel. Try to stand still inside all of that and hear your own voice. It's yours and only yours, it's unique and worth of your attention, and if you cultivate it properly, it might just make you a writer.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

Every heart is made of stories.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.