You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

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.

Calm down. Ghosts don’t ring the doorbell.

Who lives inside your head? The hero of your story OR The victim of someone else's?

Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

I'm never afraid of research. I relish it!

Sometimes it is difficult to remember, but other times it is very easy to remember. Sleep deprivation is the killer.

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

Usually people who are evil don't see themselves as evil.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

What do they not see, who see Him Who sees all things?