I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.

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.

Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

The energy born of love is creative - it makes everything it touches new. To see how passionate you are, look around at what you have created.

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.

Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.

The official bio is the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your entire life.