Evil is relatively rare

I’ve learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I’m alone and I’ve never been so content.

Youth lasts much longer than young people think.

My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet…oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool.

Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know.

The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.

When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.

So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.