I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

the tigers have found me and I do not care.

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

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

I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.