Chaos is a friend of mine.
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.
Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.
In the end, you’re just a renter anyway. You only own these things for as long as you live. After that, who knows? If I live until I’m 80, I’ll have 30 more years of collecting. If the collection is big enough, I’ll build a museum. And if not, I’ll leave it to a museum.
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Anytime I want to feel closer to the ocean, I just lay by your side and listen to the waves ebb and swell in every breath you give and take, and feel each one crash inside of me. I knew from the first time I saw you that whoever said empty shells carried the ocean’s songs had never met you before.
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.
Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don’t stop until you’ve filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don’t need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends’ accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want.
