"Hiding our true thoughts and feelings is just one example of how we give our power away."

“As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.”

“Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.”

“What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.”

Source : Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

“Artmaking involves skills that can be learned. . . In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive. . . Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.”

“I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.”

“Through skateboarding, I have an open line of communication, some common ground and common ground is big man. That enables me to travel around the world and no matter where I am, or who I'm with, connect with other young people, and I can have an instant dialogue and an instant relationship based on the fact that we skateboard, and when I'm doing appearances and demos, that's not lost on me.”

“It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.”

“I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.”