The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.

Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.

People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.