201 quotes found
“They each had scars to deal with. Scars of a different kind, but scars nonetheless. If he could say something--anything--to make a difference, he'd do it, but there simply wasn't anything left to s...”
“Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.”
“Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.”
“They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.”
“Life is about connection, not perfection.”
“Love is one of society's many socially accepted forms of madness.”
“Infatuation is like a drug that gives you the best high yet gives you the worst headache after.”
“The great poets are full of bullshit. Love has nothing on hatred's capacity to give a man purpose.”
“When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...”
“I can no longer cry. I groan a few times. Through the slits that are my eyes, I stare at my shoes, at the gray swirls of the concrete floor, at the bright orange lid of my syringe. And I realizeits...”
“To reach for yourself is to survive, to reach for others is to provide.”
“Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of th...”
“Psychoanalysis seemed an expensive, slow working, unreliable tranquilizer. If LSD were really to do whatAlpert and Leary claimed for it, all psychiatrists would be out of a job overnight.”
“All belief is the least reliable form of knowing...Where there is a natural knowing of God, there is not need for belief. The highest form of certainty is something you know so thoroughly and so na...”
“One desire, my friends, one: to kill yourself. You must desire this. You must feel that a voyage of discovery is more important than all the little trips which the normal consumer self wants to buy.”
“Gay marriage - it's not about two people being gay: it's about two people who love each other and who have decided to commit to each other for the exact same reasons any other couple would get marr...”
“It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.”
“Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.”
“A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.”
“I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.”
