I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. --From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

It's difficult to change things in a positive way.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

I know who I am, how I was. I don't want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

I'd forgotten how challenging comics can be until I started working on Ropes. Yes, you're restricted by the boundaries of the page, but we all work within technical limitations of some kind.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes are in his mind.

Funk is the unending cycle of life.

You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.