I like people, but to learn about one individual always appeals to me more than anything.

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.

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.

Stay away from the underground lake I implore, The Siren will see you are heard of no more.

Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.

Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.