Death may whiten in sun or out of it.

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.

Or perhaps it's the wickedness in him that she can't resist. There are such women.

The wisdom of nature continues to teach humanity that the material...is immaterial.

Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

Most progress is most failure.