Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

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.

The mind and soul are formed when the spirit and flesh meet

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

Today the vacuum [of space] is not regarded as empty. It is a sea of dynamic energy, like the spray of foam near a turbulent waterfall.

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?

I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote