When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.

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.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

I killed her once and died for her many times

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

How does Usain Bolt know you? You're just my soccer coach.

If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

I wish to call on you to join hands in the building of a world in which less people will be forced to flee, and in which refugees are protected until they can safely return home one day.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Lucifer is God in the public school system