Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

I don't need psychologyI am not a sociopathNeither and Psychopath

Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

A good leader sets the right goals, gets things moving, and helps us to discover that we already know what to do.

Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring every second.

They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

The monsters demand less of you as a writer because they're probably closer to who you are.

I like to make great albums.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.