My ambition is handicapped by laziness

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

You have to die a few times before you can reallylive.

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

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

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

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

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

there are worse thingsthan being alonebut it often takesdecades to realize thisand most often when you doit’s too lateand there’s nothing worsethan too late

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.

We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains.

I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love.

some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.

She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.

Find what you love and let it kill you.