Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

Punctuation, is? fun!

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.

Protected by a no-fly zone, surrounded by protesters, Trump Tower is buzzing with intensity. The president-elect's family, loyalist advisers and wannabes all jockeying for position.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

If an accident happens in a plant, the aftermath will be unimaginable.