The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Kind words are salve to a cankered soul

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

The people who are scared of ghosts are the ones who discuss most about them.

A Bostonian - an American broadly speaking.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

He’s speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when they’re about to break you apart. Gentle—kind, even—like they can make the news sound better just by speaking in a lullaby voice.

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.

It is strange when you're a loser in college, which I was, to then get your own show.