But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.

I just wished they'd see Mari, their daughter. I wished they saw how much I liked art and how much I didn't want to dedicate my life to something I wasn't passionate about.

Through life's journey, may your feet rest on solid ground, your hands touch the prize of life, and your heart find contentment.

Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism.

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

Everything happens for a reason, but they all lessons.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.