“Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.”

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life

Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.

I might start a riot, I’m so fuckin’ tired.

If you don’t want to be ordinary, you have to act like every meal you have is the last fucking meal you will ever have! You must have an insatiable desire for more!

Random thought of the day: I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m a fuck up.

The planet is fine. The people are fucked.

There’s good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad.

Drugs are bad for you. They will fuck you up.

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.

Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink,I think female alcoholics ought to be told not to fuck.