Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.

L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.