It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

Democracy is an illusion in which we all believe.

You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!

The duel may go on for long, but the self-defense often wins over the self-reproach.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party tonight, party tonight.

Rise above... cultivate the light you have within you, and it will shine through as a radiant expression that will be seen by others.

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

When people tell you, "No," just smile and tell them, "Yes, I can."

Jack and Jill ran up the hill, both for a little fun. Jack's plan was deception while Jill sought affection. And Jack wouldn't quit till he won.

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.