The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.

Water has no hands, but carries great ships.Air has no shoulders, but carries large planes.The Sun has no eyes, but finds its way around the universe.

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

A man is known by the company he organizes.

Childhood has no necessary connection with age.

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

You’re going to get what I think is the truth, and it’s going to be raw.

There are always people doing things wrong who need to be taught, for their own good. That's doable.

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.