It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.

I’m not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably.

All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.

I know I believe in nothing, but it is my nothing.

We are young, beautiful scum pissed off with the world.

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

Love is an impossible concept.

When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.

You can either wonder or worry

It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.

I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

To this day people will say, "What do you think about doing Playboy?" I feel honored to be a part of that bit of history with Hugh Hefner. No regrets.

I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars.

The Devil invented gambling.