“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to liv...”

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”