The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

Love breaks my bones and I laugh

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that . . . Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don’t wanna do. All the things that I don’t wanna be. Places I don’t wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don’t understand that . . .