Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.

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 courage to dream, the courage to act.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

Do the very best you can.

In the middlegame one should not hesitate to advance a central passed pawn.

When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news.

Don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be.

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

The beginning of love is all about the butterflies, but the end of it is when you can't get out of bed in the morning.

I'm looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.).