An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

Try to be better than yourself.

You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.