We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.

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.

If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

The American people don't read.

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

For the most part, however, Lady in the Water comes across as a movie that's too bad to be good, and not bad enough to be so bad that it's good.

We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers.

Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.

I like getting up early. I get up around five.

Football at it's best is a game of beauty and intelligence.