If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

Wish for what you want.

All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers.

A positive attitude will not only make you more fun to be around, but it will bring more happiness and joy both into your life and the lives of those around you.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect.

I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.