Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

My pen shall heal, not hurt.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.

Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.

He was so lonely that he laughed at himself.

Never close your hands in the face of evil fate

Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.

The stage of Creation is a Timeless Marche. The three measures of Nothing, Possibility, and Chaos will eternally ensure that the script continues on.

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom, ' we make a mockery of human rights.

I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

I don't even have a clue as to where to find a pregnancy test. I'm looking at all the aisles... they don't have one that says 'oops.

Spirituality is a boundless ability to respond and experience.

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.