I was determined to stay off the see-saw of crazy

I didn’t like trusting, I didn’t like setting greater than mild expectations,

I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn’t be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.

My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk and it was downstairs’ turn to roll the dice.

Furthermore, I preferred to only have cravings I could satisfy without the requirement or assistance of another person. This was, after all, the definition of self-reliance.

Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.

You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."

I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms.

Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.

The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

... religious insults are considered acceptable even by those who decry slurs about race, ethnicity, and gender. Religious people seem to deserve such treatment.