Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

Freak the ferocious out.

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?

What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.