I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

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.

Sometimes it's more painful to draw to mind the good times

Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend’s flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and then forgot to put the lid on the blender.

To tell you the Truth: It's better to give rather than to receive.

To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush - one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

Fully repeal Obamacare and replace it with health savings accounts. And we can do that.

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

When in doubt, use Caslon.