No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down.

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.

It was all bad, very bad. And the worst of it was not that they had ceased waiting, but that they had ceased to have faith.

Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?

Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.-- Dementia Patient Rose in The Inspired Caregiver

Have a little sociological beano. As you said - in sociology one can do anything and call it work.

Patent Validity is a figment of legal interpretation, it can be contested, reversed and cancelled any time before expiry

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.

David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.

The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.