You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat, above me feet walk upon my brain, monkies fall from the sky clutching photographs of the planets, but i seek only music and the leisure of my pain

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.