I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.

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.

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.

Rock 'n' roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things - maybe he's just trying to be like his daddy.

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.

Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.