I suppose I'll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid.

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.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?

All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.

God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward.

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.

There are no slow retroviruses, only slow retrovirologists.

Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.