In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

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'.

My heart's in the Highlands my heart is not here My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

These monstrous views ... these venomous teachings.

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone.

When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.

Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it, I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.