You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.

It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.

Rule 1: Be kind.Rule 2: Don't be a doormat when they step on you.Kindness and sticking up for yourself go hand in hand if you want happiness.

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn't demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.

You might be a redneck if you are still holding on to Confederate money because you think the South will rise again.

Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales

I'm the most dangerous unarmed women in the world, I've prepared my entire life to be that way.

All industry must be excited by hope.

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.