Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.

No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

A little bit of this town goes a very long way.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.