It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.

I read once that sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks ahead.

If you don't like how others define & label you, then work on your values. Embrace and practice values that you would like to be associated.

it’s funny how I’m encouraged to go to school so much, but I’ve learned more valuable things on google then from school.

The floor is milk, churn it and make it butter.

I fear nothing for God is with me!

In the coming elections if you cannot decide whom to select, use the vote to reject.

It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.