My past is everything I failed to be.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they’re happy.

From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I

At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other.

Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread.

I'd spent a night with Ranger a while ago, and I knew what happened when he was encouraged. Ranger knew how to make a woman want him. Ranger was magic.

Don't believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!!

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

Don't write about Man; write about a man.

You can be a great model, an average one, or a bad model. You may think it doesn't matter to you, but it does to the Lord.

I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

I'm definitely not afraid to be wrong.

If you are physically ready to play, it's a matter of confidence. Your confidence goes down when you lose games, when shots are not going in.