The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

You see, I needed to go to Hell.

I think Elvis Presley will never be solved

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think.

I don't have a college degree.

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Love is the music of the heart, which you can feel but can't hear.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.

It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

I don't wanna join the Hair Club For Men or anything.

What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of the things you are grateful for.

You can't really explain to anyone the experience onset, you actually have to see it to understand what we're all going through. Some days we can be on set 15 - 17 hrs. Plus then there's training.

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.

I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.