If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

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

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out of it, and they're sick and they spring back, they spring back and forth...If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.