I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.

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.

Either you reach a higher point today or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

God told me once, 'I want you to come up to the lowest place.'

There is nothing you can control about love.

We do not go to Holy Communion because we are good; we go to become good.

Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

The way something is presented will define the way you react to it.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That's Montana.

No one knows enough to worry.