I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

No one survives life.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

Decorate your life and home to represent the vivid hues of your radiant soul. Share your brilliance.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

Financial winners don't run sprints, they run marathons. They don't rush. They do it step by step over time.

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.

I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.