There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

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.

And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?

At the core of your being, you are spiritual, limitless, and beautiful. To enjoy this you be mindful and openly love yourself.

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Twitter is a kind of verbalization of people yelling at their television sets or gnashing their teeth at the newspaper.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.

I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.