Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Faith can never be lost.It can only be misplaced.

GOD made you a masterpiece, stop treating yourself like a shattered piece.

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

Off stage, Im very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.

Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.