And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

An answer is always a form of death.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

I could’ve quit long ago, but there wouldn’t be nothing to quit to, unless I was ready to commit suicide.

Happiness doesn't just flow from success

My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.

My kids, they're always embarrassed when my voice shows up in something. I took them to Inside Out, and my voice comes in, and they were like, "Ugh, Dad, what are you doing? Get out of there."

Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.

The songs that you work and work and work on sometimes are just forced and not as good.

Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.