I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it?

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

To see the beautiful and mystical in the other worlds, one first must see the beauty of one's soul

When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.

Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.

Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.