I have been holding a dialogue with myself and girding myself to stand fast without running.

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.

You choose who gets your attention, and you don’t have to give it to anyone who makes you feel like crap. Period.

Just as you dress for the occasion you should undress when reading erotica.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

By the time a man is rich enough to sleep late he's too old to enjoy it.

We are not saved by good deeds; we are saved for good deeds. Jesus transforms us to transform others.

The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.

If Israel is attacked, America has their back, not just diplomatically, not just culturally, but militarily.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.