I knew you'd decide to be all right again.

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.

The most beautiful person is a person with kind heart and loving soul.

First thoughts are the strongest.

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.

I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes.

And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.