I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

Survival is triumph enough.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

So how did you do it? What makes the cold-hearted princeling mortal like the rest of us?

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

The day Cami nearly succeeded at her suicide attempt was the worst day of Kaci’s life. Cami was the only sister that she had, and she couldn’t imagine spending the rest of her life without her.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence.

Believe in yourself and don't care about haters.