There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.

It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.

You can make yourself happy.

I'm not macho. I'm very open about things. I don't try to hide my feelings.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

You can become something you don't want to become, but it's a change, a new phase. Hopefully one you want.

You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

There are people that will try to hurt you and hold you down.

Boldness comes from curiosity.

The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.

Probably no invention came more easily to man than Heaven.

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault.

I love the beach, and I love sunshine.

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.

The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?

Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.