Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.

There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.

I hate high heels, more than anything.

That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

I don't think you should invest in commodities. Eddie Murphy made it seem risky in Trading Places.

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

How soon will time cover all things.

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

If you talk about what you believe, you will attract those who believe what you believe.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.