I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn't speak.

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.

The danger of venturing into uncharted waters is not nearly as dangerous as staying on shore, waiting for your boat to come in.

If it seems perfect, you're being played with.

God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

If you could kick the posterior of the person who has hurt you the most, ...you wouldn't be able to sit down for six weeks.

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.

In high school, I didn't get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.