I don't know how long I kept at it... I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still. It didn't seem to be summer any more

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.

Alan Rittenhouse: I know you're just a reporter, but you used to be a person, right?

We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.

We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.