There are no guarantees. Not with love or with life. But we can't go through life never taking a risk... Put our hearts out there. Take a chance with a boy. We might end up hurt, we might not.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Create your own miracles

There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.

Don't force anything. Find what you love and stick with it.

The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

A thought must tell at once, or not at all.