I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

It's pointless to hate anything. Just trick your conscience by pretending you like something and soon enough you will.

Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to forst and betrayal.

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

When the catcher throws down a curveball, I'm like, 'Okay, I can definitely do that.' If I miss with it, I'm still ready to throw it again.

Technology has to be accessible otherwise it enslaves us, and I'm not really in favour of that.

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.