Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.

America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

Cries for help are frequently inaudible.

Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses.