Like a cat I have nine times to die.

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.

We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.

He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal.

When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

I entered his apartment without being invited, which is perfectly fine if you're not a vampire.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.

Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.