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You're maudlin and you're full of self-pity. You're magnificent.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy ... or they become legend.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

One thing that really fucked me up at 'Creem' was that I got caught up in the whole idea that Lester Bangs was this thing, this idea. I call it like Hunter Thompsonism. It's when you pay more attention to your image than you do to your work. And that destroys your writing. Hunter Thompson's never gonna do anything good again as long as he lives. I don't think anybody really cares about his drug habits.

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

I have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.