[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.

I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's feelings

Results, are the name of the game.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

I'm able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have grown.