Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.

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.

I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?

When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition—as making a spark requires two things struck together.

Today, Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed when he learned that a firehouse isn't a house where you get to fire people.

Look carefully at the closest associations in your life, for that is the direction you are heading.

I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.