Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

True nirvana will come when we enlighten the world of awareness and higher consciousness.

Never show your weakness before adversary.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.

There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.

There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.

If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.