Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

Jena Malone

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Thomas Jefferson

The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.

Stephen King

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Walter Savage Landor

Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through.

Jarod Kintz

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

Cecily von Ziegesar

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe.... If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.

Ray Bradbury

Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom?

Cassandra Clare

He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.

Thomas Kempis

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Ben Stein

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Mark Twain