…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.

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.

Man is a bad animal.

I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.

The Gospel of John opens with Jesus Christ in the bosom of God, and closes with the sinner in the bosom of Jesus Christ.

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.

It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.

Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

Sometimes love comes around and it knocks you down just get back up when it knocks you down

Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.

[Referring to a glass of water:] I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody!

As long as there is poverty there will be gods.