Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

In God we trust all others must pay cash.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

Better readers are better thinkers.

I have no regrets about my life.

Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like Delta Airlines

Yeah, I do get to do some theater occasionally. I don't get to do it as much as I would like to.

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

When I go in there, I'm not going in there to win. I'm going in there to fight!

The resources of this earth are inexhaustible, because God made man's mind inexhaustible.

[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.