Knowing yourself lets you understand others.

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

You are a victim of the rules you live by.

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.

TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.

If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

Protect me from what I want.

All things are delicately interconnected.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

Affliction may be for our edification and Christian development.

She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

Men's eyes are in their heads; women's, in their hearts.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

We carry the flame for all to see, the fire and passion of what we can be.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.