As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?

I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.