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.

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.

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'.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

Don’t be afraid of those failures that do not lead to a loss of life or that do not incapacitate people.

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

My goal is to never quit.

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.

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And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew.