What did my arms do before they held you?

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.

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

When you decide to be better than you were yesterday and maintain this attitude, you are going to the peak.

Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.

There is a tremendous amount of farting in prison.

Almost every great achievement began with someone finally getting ticked off, saying, 'Enough!' and standing up to fight.

Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings.

A lot of people dont understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue.

I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective.

I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.