It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)

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.

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

For me it's the same thing if the fans boo or not, because my role is the villain. I'm happy when you clap me though.

too many maniacs not enough michelangelos

Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

Cool,” I said. “You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your homework.

It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.