I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

Necessity is our quickest excuse.

I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.

Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away.

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

It's just a matter of time before we're late.

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.