Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.

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 reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

It is time for the Chinese to make good on their word.

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.

Being a lad is what I'm about.

In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear.

Every time I leave the house or we go anywhere, there is a paranoia. We always have to watch for specific cars and specific signs that we're being photographed.

As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.