"I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry."

“What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing.”

Source : Song: Just Around The Riverbend

“I drank from the bottle again and it was a scary plunge because I always wanted to take too much. It hurt, but it was also impressive, like being in the hands of a bigger force. And because of that, a relief.”

“I have a great family that loves me, a record deal at 14, and I get to do what I love every day.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

“Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else...”

“Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”

“How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?”

“I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.”

Source : "North Korea’s Latest Alarming Nuclear Test Is Part of Its Apocalyptic “Final Victory” Strategy" by Isaac Chotiner, www.slate.com. January 6, 2016.

“If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.”