I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can

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.

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

His lies were the taste of agave syrup and I fell for everyone of them...vulnerable me! I promise myself never to feel this lonely again...never.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

Thrift is a great revenue.

Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.