“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we all agreed on the same thing; we'd all like to die fucking (although none of us had...”

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four...”

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”

“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”

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