The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.

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.

Strategy is influenced by circumstances.

…When you’ve know me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.”“Even the lies?”“Especially the lies. Lord Petyr…

What do confidence and command look like when you see them? Moving one step past a healthy self-esteem, they project an air of authority, respect, and deliberate intention.

When we fail to harmonize and integrate, living systems, from individuals to families and countries, tend to move toward either chaos or rigidity.

I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see, As if rapt in my inditing, The moon's full gaze on me.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

It's kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane.

Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.