I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off.

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.

I think about you every second of every day and I don’t know how to get over you, ” she says.“Don’t, ” I beg her. “Please don’t get over me.

I just know there's no way to live without pain - no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.

The gift of being able to speak with a holy God because of the righteousness we gain through Jesus on the cross is an indescribable miracle!

A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.

I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.

I think that my interest as a creator always comes first, so I'm wondering things like "Just how free is this world?" and "Where are the boundaries?"

Wherever you go, God be with you.

Be patient when it seems things are not going right and may never be right again. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.

Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.