“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“You’re going to do what you’re going to do and that’s all there is. That’s all you got and that’s that.”

“Sleep is my escape. It gives me a break from the ceaseless self awareness that I choke on.”

“Yesterday wants to pull me in, pull me down and starve me.”

“Jangles my nerves like a tambourine of razors.”

“All bullshit and no death and mutilated assholes makes Jack a dull boy, dull and tense.”

“I’m sorry for not being sorry that I’m not sorry”

“I don’t ask for much. I should ask for a lot, then maybe I might get some.”

“What is this bullshit? 97% caffeine free is 97% not my kind of thing.”

“I wish I wasn’t alive as much as you are dead”

“Sometimes it’s hard to convince yourself that you’re not an idiot.”

“America is seething at all times. It's like a Gaza Strip that's three thousand miles long.”

“She left an empty house in my heart. The lights don’t work anymore, the heater’s broken.”

“My heart is making a dull, drumming sound and I’m thinking that my life is a waiting game and I’m sinkin’ all the while.”

“Now shut the fuck up and watch some MTV.”

“It’s hard to change adults. They are going to do what they are going to do.”

“It’s hard to change adults. They are going to do what they are going to do.”

“Stay away from people They’ll slow you down and break your heart”

“You hide your fear and call it something else You’re addicted to all the things that make you weak”

“There will be no real life There will be the alcohol circus”