Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

A rock star never gets old!

America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

Dude, that was a knuckle buster brother.

I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find my purpose or I will go mad in this green, godless place.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.