Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.

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.

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.

She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

Physical limitedness can only be surpassed by mental unlimitedness!

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

Do more than be fair: be kind.