Steve, on the other hand, has plenty of friends, but he wouldn't bleed for any of them, because he wouldn't trust them to bleed for him. In that way he's just as alone as me.

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Make criticism in good time

You ever think about the noose?''I been thinking about the noose since I was born.

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.