there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

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

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

They were beautiful nothings

You were destroyed by what you befriended.

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.