One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.

I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.

A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center.