The mind I love must have wild places.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

I'm irreverent, I'm not politically correct, and I feel that I'm protected in my private life because I live a very public private life.

It's impossible for me to lose because I won't quit!

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

My art and profession is to live.

I'm a big fan of pastries the size of a baby that contain enough calories for a year. That seems like an effective use of time.

Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.