It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

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.

The past isn't over. It isn't even past.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

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

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.