People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.

We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.

Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.