I am myself. That is not enough.

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.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.

It is fatal to forget the Law's of God.

He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.

It occurred to me that when I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait.

I have learned that having a cause to fight for is a noble and rare thing to have. So be fearless and fight.

The best way to get started on the path of sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front of others.

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright