Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.

Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.