I am infinitely strange to myself.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority.

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.

A lot of times I wind up playing songs like (Alice in Chains') "Down in a Hole" that make me scream at the top of my lungs if I want to get frustration out from a bad day.

Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.

The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.

I thought even if the show only lasted a year, it would be fun.

I may be known as the girl who was sunbathing topless with a Prince but Jordan is known as that thick girl who always falls out of clubs drunk. I know which one I prefer.

The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.