The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

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.

Power is not powerful without wisdom.

But Marchent, most journalists can’t be trusted. You do know that, don’t you?

We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.

There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.

Russians understand the rhythm of despair.

How much I hate the people's world.

In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others