Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

We're all of us haunted and haunting.

Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.

I am nothing, and not even that.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.