since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

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.

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.

Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.

You don't get it boy... this isn't a mudhole... its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I'm the surgeon.

We will not apologise for our way of life.

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.

Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem.