I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

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.

If love wasn't blind, some people don't deserve anything

But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.

favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.

For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.

Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

I believe in people living their lives and having privacy.