Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music
I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m sorry I did that to you. I’m sorry I did all those things to you over all of these years. I’m sorry I took my anger out on you. I’m sorry that I repeated the abuse Chaos had given me onto you. I’m just so sorry!
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please — a little less love, an
And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who h
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country
