The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

One moves more slowly in heels. Walking fast is neither sexy nor engaging. Nobody notices the people who race around. If you're walking in heels, you've got time. It's much more attractive.

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.

I'm so hungry," Amy said sleepily. "Hey, you stole my line," Dan said.