Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.

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.

Silence is a source of Great Strength.

It’s time someone said it, average living (read middle-class) is not good enough

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

The price of freedom is death.

I'm a very stereotypical person... and that's part of my flavor, I guess, because I tell it like it is.

Zarek? (Astrid) What?! (Zarek) Don’t use that tone with me. I like to know where people are in my house. Be nice, or I’ll make you wear a cowbell. (Astrid)

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.