I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

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'.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

Grounded by healthy self-esteem and personal self-worth, this admirable character quality can inspire awe and reverence.

Never complete. Never whole.White skin and an African soul.

The weight of her expectations crumble me. I've always done the right thing. She expects me to make good choices but I don't even know what good choices look like...

Kindness I've discovered is everything in life.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

There are no laws that prohibit an American president from continuing to be involved in their private business matters while in office, right?