We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.

You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

If any man dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is truly his truth, I think then the world would go to smash, that it would be blown to smithereens and no god, no accident, no will could ever again assemble the pieces, the atoms, the indestructible elements that have gone to make up the world.