Character is fate.

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.

Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now

My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel.

Get it in while you can. It'll all be gone soon enough.

The arbiter of a demanding wargame rendered the word "mismatch" as "challenge" in his language.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.

Artificial Intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet.

The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.