To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
Stuff your eyes with wonder.
Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.
At the end of your life, you cannot take a penny with you. So what is the object of money if you can't take it with you?
Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning. Meaning has not to be discovered; it has to be created. You will find meaning only if you create it. It is not lying there somewhere behind the bushes, so you can go and you search a little bit and find it. It is not there like a rock that you will find. It is a poetry to be composed, it is a song to be sung, it is a dance to be danced.
Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.