The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.

Money is the most powerful and popular god because everybody is praying for money.

Allow your natural personality to shine through without pretending to be someone you're not, or you may be stuck with that label forever.

Lesson learned: If you’re already resorting to writing shitty poetry (not the lovey-dovey kind) to get your guys attention within one month of meeting him, he is not the one.

We have to look at loan forgiveness to incentivise young people to pursue degrees in areas where we know we need help.

I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, What the Hell was that. As long as it somehow ties back into the story, somehow.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

The landscapist lives in silence.

You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

My inspiration is love and history.