He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....

Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!

One does not have humor. It has you.

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

Beware of the man who has no enemies.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

I'm gonna find someone someday who might actually treat me well