Dope don't have no sympathy, not for love or family, definitely not for fear. Put dope and the devil up against each other in the ring, and dope will win out. Every single time.

Only other people can make you feel real.

Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.

(…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.

Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's some kind of high-calorie compensation.

She laughs, and that's really all he wanted.

It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.

Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn't mean they don't leave scars that itch.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

The virtues of your character is more important the public opinion.

Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time.

Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

Remember always what you set out to get, and please don’t settle for less.

The path is always right beneath your feet.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

It only 'doesn't work out' if you quit. Never, ever quit!

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius