How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren't even physical?

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?

Maybe the new me will be different.

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.

The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus "Not me! I didn't think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.

Alone. The saddest word in the world.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.

Within us is Energy which when channelized, spirals into Inspiration.

God is the truth.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.