“How do you even know I'm someone you'll want to remember? We've only seen each other once before.'(Amber)'Have you ever looked at a painting and known you had something in common with it? Have you ...”

“You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.”

“It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”

“Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stopthere are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God.”

“All I want is to sleep--to dream. Life is better in dreams.”

“I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.”

“I am not here to make you feel better, I am just here to make you feel worse”