I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.

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.

But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one.

Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.

I'm the diamond in the dirt, that ain't been found. I'm the underground king and I ain't been crowned.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

Don't get married to an actress, because they're also actresses in bed.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

I think people should elect a cat person. If you elect a dog person, you elect someone who wants to be loved. If you elect a cat person, you elect someone who wants to serve.

God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.