Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drips, and gathers, and congeals.

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.

The earliest bird gets the worm only if the worm is stupid enough to show up.

You are likely to vomit your dreams if you take too much at a time. Take it one after the other and don't over-eat the dreams you have! Dream big, but start small!

I don’t shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like doing that.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.

There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to do, the real world has more to do with what is hidden, maybe. You think?

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.