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

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

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.

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

What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no longer the peoples of our lands, but merely peoples...

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

We do have the power to save one another...

Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.' -Emily Wilcox

What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.