I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

Citizens, you will elect me - I will be your leader.

What happens to us is not as important as the meaning we assign to it. Journaling helps sort this out.

Nothing is unnatural - just untried.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.