I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

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.

I pulled out my mp3 player and stuck the buds in, and letting out a big breath, I started to scroll through my music for something appropriate to kill by. John Tesh, it is.

I am poetry in motion

It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

I never have lunch because it makes me foggy-headed.

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.