“In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.”

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.

I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.

As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.

There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun – I liked it for an actual job.

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.

You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

Some people think, if you’re in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.