Real relationships - the kind that were supposed to last but never did - were more trouble than they were worth.

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

Your inner “I” somehow knows the purpose of your existence

...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...This was untrue, of course.

Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.