I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

Sweet pea, you are my favorite hello and my hardest goodbye, and I don't want to go a day without you. Consider that your official invitation

Wolves travel in packs, not in herds.

With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.

Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.

It never occurred to me that I was hired because I was black. But it did occur to me that because I was black it would give a different historic element to the film.

Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport

I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.

Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!