I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

To breath through the truth is not the same with knowing it.

Life is a progression of becoming who we are.

All of what the government said is lies upon lies.

Remington Tate, I swear to you—I swear—that when I’m able to get up from this stupid bed and run again, you’re always, always, going to be the one thing I’ll run straight to.

When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit.

The tranquility of my room partakes too much of Forest Lawn.

North Carolina was never a battleground state until recently. Now it is, and it's because of migration from the Northeast.

I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist.

He who sends the storm steers the vessel.