Write drunk; edit sober.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

As the man left and became gone the fault wailed after him, heartbroken. Yelling back at him all the ways he and it belonged to one another.

I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.

To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

Today, the media handle information as if it was a religious artefact.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.

There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.