But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

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.

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.

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

How we need another soul to cling to.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

Is anyone anywhere happy?

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.

How a woman thinks is often how she lives.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?

I love being in borrowed houses. I love being a bit out of my context. I miss my context dreadfully, but I'm excited by that.

If you had a dime for every excuse you made, I wouldn't have to be here right now.

It's unacceptable to tour using non-environmentally friendly fuel when there are alternatives.

I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.

If you wanted to remold people, you had to break them down first.

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.