The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

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.

Solitude always gives birth to something.

Being comfortable with the lies can be catastrophic.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

I have no past--the steps have disappeared the wind has blown them away.

As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.

We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.