I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.

The creation of art requires descent into the dark.

If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

I would rather sleep only five hours and wake up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. and be in control of my time than to sleep later and spend the entire day controlled by time.

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.

I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.

Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others.

I think I've got the best job around.