And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.

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.

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 wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

How we need another soul to cling to.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

Is anyone anywhere happy?

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'

I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

I'm just saying it's easier to kill a cat than dispose of a car.

The universe is in change, life is an opinion.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.