An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

A thought is a hard thing to control.

Patriotism can results in racism

The game is full of peaks and valleys, the key is to avoid the Grand Canyon.

I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.

And Hillary Clinton is going to do nothing for the African- American worker, the Latino worker.

I was talking to Jesus, and I said, Jesus, I feel like no one will ever accept me. And Jesus looked at me and said, You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

I played one game, and one game played me.

An education reformer is as important in America as the first lady.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.