The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.

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.

I ain't askin' nobody for nuttin' if I cain't get it on my own.

It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

You can make an idea spread for good but you can also make an idea spread for bad and the power to make an idea spread, memetics, you know which now people talk about memes.

[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.

Put your attention on happiness by practicing the Happiness Habits each day.

If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure.

I find I'm an old soul.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.