God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

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.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

A man's concept of God creates his attitude towards the hour in which he lives.

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

Handfuls of frosty water can make almost anyone smile, but it cannot make them forget.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

Completing a recovery session the day after a game is just as important. I like to go for a walk or a swim and have a stretch

It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free.

US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.