I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

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'.

History's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell.

No one is exempt from the call to find common ground.

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it.

It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.

Scripture indicates that heaven is not distant but rather... heaven is near in another realm.

Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.