Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

When I write I am the real me.

The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.

Are all American girls as daft as you, Rachel?" "I hope so," I said.

No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.

Maybe not getting what she wanted gave her everything she wanted after all.

Mind power is my art …… so bring the canvas of your mind closer and I will create a masterpiece.

Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

In Los Angeles, individuality is very big, because people live in secluded bubbles. People don't walk around. They're very insular, and that allows for people to be whatever they want.

Sometimes hell has no words.

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.

I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.