How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?

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.

Children are like water

No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly.

Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.

Nothing good ever happens in a blackout. I've never woken up and been like, 'What is this Pilates mat doing out?'

The artist should always be the student.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

The deeper message that is resonating with people is that it is possible to build. It is possible to invest in people; it is possible to invest in green infrastructure; it's possible to change.

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.