And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Be in love with what you do. Love wisdom. Love life. Love people. God is love.

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.

Failure is the school of greatness.

You need to be in a church where the pastors are urging you, not so much to listen to what they say as to turn to the Bible from which they teach.

You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.

Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.

I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.