When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row.""There are some real weirdos down there.""They're everywhere.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job

I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy.

Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.

This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.

..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

The secret of losing weight is patience.

I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it's regular-sized and my muscles are huge.

A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump