Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

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.

In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.

There were definitely times I couldn't shower for a full week because I could barely stand, it felt like having all your life sucked out of you.

I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as far as creating a lane for myself to be independent.

Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.