I carry the bars within me.

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'.

Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii)

Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.

As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.

You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you!

I've just vowed my love for you. Have you nothing to say in return?" Duncan asked. "Thank you, husband.

You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

As with everything in nature, if your life isn’t supported by a grounded source of energy, it will wither and lose its vitality.