What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

the heart aches through nights—the broken places of neglect

Crap talk

The race needs workers, not leaders.

The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.

Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I've looked up to my whole life.

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery.

In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment.

I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.