This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.