I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone, I felt best being alone, cleaner, , ,

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.

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

I never liked you, and I always will.

My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.

We get our military people to come back and make recommendations to me and I will follow those recommendations. I will follow them very strongly.

You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it.

I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn’t make verbal threats were the most dangerous.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.