The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.

If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

Questions are infinitely superior to answers.

It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

There was no club but the Hells Angels as far as I was concerned.

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

Once you've raced, you never forget it...and you never get over it.