Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.

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.

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

This book is visceral like how your small intestine is visceral

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."

I don't think Americans look bad in spandex.

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

The question is not, "Do you know you are a sinner?" the question is this, "As you have heard me preach the Gospel, has God so worked in your life that the sin you once loved you now hate?"

The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.

North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.