If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.

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.

The type of nothing from which something can arise is truly something.

The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

That however advanced any man may 'be-in' age or piety, he is still in danger of falling.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

You have to believe in them now. Christ believed in you when there was nothing to believe in.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.