It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

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.

Where there is life, there is a hope.

Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then.