If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.

Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

It's funny how people who we fight with the most at the end of day are the ones that really got your back.

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

Anyone who tells you that American seniors are not either going to have their services cut or we're going to have to pay more is...lying about it.

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.