Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.

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.

Will you read this? I think maybe it sucks. Or maybe it's awesome. It's probably awesome. Tell me it's awesome, okay? Unless it sucks." — Nick

I hope, ” he replies softly, “to get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around you that I would like to clear away.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Sometimes it's not about speed about power, it's about up here man [points to his head]. All these guys are not with me mentally.

there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.

I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.

I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.