It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries.

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.

There is no try. There is only do.

Family is the only why of life

I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe was created by an intelligence.

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire.

My thing in high school was being the tallest kid in class. Always. I was always the tallest kid in class.

The woods were made for the hunter of dreams...

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.