“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.”

My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.

Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.

Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.

Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

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.

Nobody dies a virgin. Life fucks us all.

You’re right.I am crazy. But you know what else? I don’t give a fuck.

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.