Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.

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.

Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind.

There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.

It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

A peaceful, moral and conscientious person excessively deserves to be respected!

Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.