Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion--and fear considers this very important--does it want to know how things stand with me.

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

I was all too aware that there's an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so. I told myself that my tears were due tot he cold, and I believed myself.

Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future.

But I hope you don’t feel the hurt as much as I did. You are too weak and fragile to stand that ache. Remember, you always will be.

Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just part of me.

How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?

Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.