In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.

Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Money promises more than it delivers

We could all have been killed -or worse, expelled.

Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.

I never liked making albums.

There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

As far as Im concerned, I regret nothing.