Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted ‘Time Square, and step on it!’
Disneyland is Vegas for children.
When it’s raining you can’t find enough things to catch it in. When it’s not you can stand out in the middle of the street in a dress and a funny hat and nothing’s gonna make it rain. I go through periods – or spells – when I’m more receptive.
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
I worry about a lot of things, but I don’t worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven.
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes.
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
My friends think I’m ugly, I gotta masculine face.