Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such