I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent mind.

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.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

What is true in the South is true for America.

Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century

I love having somebody there - that companion thing. You know who you're going to eat with, who you're going to see a movie with.

They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.