When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.

I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

You'll live through my words and my pictures, and I'll live somewhere the skies are blue.

Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.

Willingness to possess is the beginning of..love hurts.

The knight of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5.

And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

If we were united and strong, we'd elect our own emir (leader) and give allegiance to him... Take my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.

Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you.