In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

Things always change, and New York teaches you that.

Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

I'm usually alone or asleep, at home.

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

I shake my head and the tiny acrobats fall like spangles, like the cool rain on another planet, down to the inside of my feet.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

You recreate your world to your taste with God's Word in your mouth.

Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.

You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.

I can really stomach anything so, as a result, I have watched a lot of really disgusting stuff that I should probably never have seen.