Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?

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.

You can't eat hope, ' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you, ' the colonel replied.

What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire.

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.

Being celibate was so wonderful. It taught me a lot about love, but even more about my own self outside of love. I'd never met myself out of love before, really.

My friends ask me for advice about guys, because I have so many brothers and I see what guys go through.

I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams and clear memories of hating them.

You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it.

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.