I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

I am possessed by love and have no options.

The fear of being alone is a great obstacle to attracting the relationship that is right for you.

Dear, sweet, beautiful girl,

Plant seeds of kindness and watch your blessings flow abundantly

I am a friend to any brave and gallant outlaw.

The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.

My most annoying question is "Hilary, are you ever going to play a pretty girl?"

Endurance is the crowning quality.

I think passion gives you the energy to do what is right, and discipline makes sure you do what is right. So I look at them as kind of cousins maybe.

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.