You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?