Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
All great and precious things are lonely.
It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.