We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.