To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

How did I picture the life after the grave? I fairly bawled out at him: "A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.

I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.

In the long run one gets used to anything.

Encourage many, enlighten many, and you will empower many.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

I wouldn't be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don't think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn't sit well on my soul.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.