The box is only temporary.

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.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

I go towards him and put my hands on his face and I kiss him. “What do you feel, Holden?”He looks into my eyes. “You, ” he says. “I feel you.

So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?

People who stop laughing are always the ones who get hurt.

Life is not that tough if you have a perfectionist sub-ordinate

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

I want to confront myself. I challenge and doubt myself. Basically, what I don't like is to get bored.

I don't like to compare years, honestly. I think every year is a different experience, a different challenge. You grow. You evolve as a person and as a player.

Take care of God’s creation. But above all, take care of people in need.

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.