With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them