It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

A teacher can change a life just with appreciation and love.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

I like getting up early. I get up around five.