all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.

What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.

You can manage your life by only your time

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

What is good today may be a cliche tomorrow.

The most beautiful face is always the face of the peaceful mind!

Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

I am a very impatient director.