"There's only one Tree Hill. And it's your home."

E.E Cummings once wrote: "To be nobody but yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

I wanna draw something that means something to someone. You know, I wanna draw blind faith, or a fading summer, or just a moment of clarity. It’s like when you go and you see a really great band live for the first time, you know? And nobody’s saying it, but everybody’s thinking it. We have something to believe in again.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.