My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Aldous Huxley

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

Jim Morrison

True, conscious honor is to feel no sin, he's armed without that's innocent within; be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

Alexander Pope

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

H. L. Mencken

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

Alex Trebek

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

William Dean Howells

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

Fran Lebowitz

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

Larry Hagman

Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.

Heath L. Buckmaster

Better speake truth rudely then lye covertly.

George Herbert

The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Carl Jung

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.

Ellen Barkin