Talking about my fears to others feeds it.

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.

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 wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

How we need another soul to cling to.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

Is anyone anywhere happy?

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

Impossible to let go ... No longer knowing how to hold on.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

When no one is watching, live as if someone is.

I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.

All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.