You can’t burn down a made-up place.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

We all need good manners, like our friends from the zoo!

Biography is the only true history.

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

Half the battle is just showing up.

I think people are surprised to learn that Im pretty goofy and pretty funny.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

When you’re unsure, jump with your eyes closed and legs wide open