The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.