Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.

Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

The best teacher for a leader is evaluated experience.

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.

He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.