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

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.

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.

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

How we need another soul to cling to.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

Is anyone anywhere happy?

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

The only advantage of knowledge is that it can justify suffering.

The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.

But mom's been depressed ever since her last boyfriend turned out to be a Republican.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

I was in a band called The Valentines and they broke up last week.

There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Constant talkers are unheard.

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.