When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

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.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

Willing is not enough, one must apply.

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

I feel really blessed because of where I come from.

Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

I've always been reasonably fatalistic.

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

We have 31 Republican governors in this country. We have roughly the same number of Republican legislatures.