It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.

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.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

Real is overratedNo way in my life is that the gistI'd be everything I am notIf I were a fictionist

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.

Today is plenty; right now is enough. Tomorrow will come in good time. Until it does, live the depth of now.