"Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you."

"I’ve always been a very good judge of people. That’s why I like so few of them."

"I find beauty in all things authentic, pure, and eternal. And so I value honesty, I value holiness, and I value the soul."

"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life."