For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

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.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Hello, Gallagher Girl --Zack

Life can be both hell and bliss or it can be nothing at all.

I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.