one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

How do you achieve excellence? 1. Mindset 2. Discipline 3. Commitment 4. Consistency

There is no such thing as a beauty contest . . . Beauty is noncompetitive. Beauty of any kind stands alone, unmatched, inimitable, uncontested.

One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.

The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.

I want to be the voice of change and hope. I want to confront the big challenges this country faces.

America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.

I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.

Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.