writing, like living, is lonely work.

We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.

Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.

how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.

A horse to one who loves him is a cure for many ills.

It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.

Set me free, let me be me, let me fly, fly high and away, let me breathe freedom...

The past might hurt but don't run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it.

Everything's Matter. Everything Matters.

The beauty of life is not a lack of darkness, but it is in the presence of light.

A representational photograph says, 'This is what Vienna looked like.' An interpretational photograph goes one better and says, 'This is what Vienna was like. This is how I felt about it.

I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent.

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

I'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy.

It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.