“Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.”

“What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.”

“It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.”

“I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.”

“As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.”

“I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.”

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”