If you're reading this, then I guess someone, somewhere does go through the rubbish and read every piece of paper that gets balled up and tossed away. So in that case here it is- my name's Sal.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Remorse begets reform.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

... it is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.

Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.

Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.

There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."

I always think that you have to have a certain understanding of what an audience would want to see from you as a public person as well as a character.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

Those times when you feel like quitting can be times of great opportunity, for God uses your troubles to help you grow.