God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.

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.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Interns, unite: you have nothing to lose but your unpaid positions!

Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.

Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it’s about the people.

I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly