I am made, crudely, for success.

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.

Just shut up and talk. - Shella

Human emotion is not a linear experience. That which provokes emotion in one may provoke little, if anything, in another.

If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist.

They say before you make something happen you have to see it yourself. I have been seeing it for a long time and I am living my dream.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody.

I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

ALWAYS chose the road less taken.

I'm not any happier anywhere than when I'm in the studio. I'm over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.