"I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse."

“Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.”

“The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.”

“And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten more.”

Source : John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

“I don't think the victims should be babied, but there should be a counselor to teach them coping mechanisms. The bully needs counseling too.”

Source : "Laura Michelle unleashes her inner Chuck Norris". Interview with Carissa Shuman, thecelebritycafe.com. August 26, 2016.

“Jazz is really about the human experience. It’s about the ability of human beings to take the worst of circumstances and struggles and turn it into something creative and constructive. That’s something that’s built into the fiber of every human being. And I think that’s why people can respond to it. They feel the freedom in it. And the attributes of jazz are also admirable. It’s about dialogue. It’s about sharing. And teamwork. It’s in the moment, and it's nonjudgmental.”

“The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.”

“For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com