The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B. Once you were beautiful.

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 had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

I'm an indestructible master of war.

I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

You read nothing if you dare not giving any judgement.

I'm proud to be part of any Olympic team.

There's a huge difference between the more progressive and more regressive parts of America. That's just the way it is.