There is more than one good way to drown.

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.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

Tears filled Claire’s eyes but, as if they knew their place, didn’t leave.

Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.

I've had an incredible life with a lot of triumphs, my share of heartbreak, and some pretty amazing experiences.

When it comes time to default, they’re not going to remember any of the Republicans’ names. They are going to remember in history books one name, and that's Obama.

My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

Hope is necessary. It's a necessary concept. And Barack Obama didn't just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes.

There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.

Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!