The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.

I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.

I am a parasite off beauty.

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

I used to do horseback riding in the South, and it was just things I'd be pasting. I think my diaries was just an infantile desire to record things. I liked saving things instead of writing.

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

I rocketed a commanding finger to the heavens and it rained stardust upon our young heads.

Loyalty could come only of exchange and mutual regard.

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

We know nothing. Absolutely nothing.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.