I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

You are a victim of the rules you live by.

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.

TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.

If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

Protect me from what I want.

All things are delicately interconnected.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

If you make a hiring mistake, make the change quickly. Don’t ignore problems. Don’t assume it will get better.

Mason knew what it was like to say things you didn’t mean, to just have them vomit out, and then feel that crushing ache when you realized you could never pull them back.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god (whomsoever horses pray to) in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank.

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.