I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. Time To Spend On Life.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

Satan never gets very far from the Bible. And every one of the cults, even Satanism, uses the Bible.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.

You're too damn selfish!

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.