"There was one time they knocked me out and laid me in front of my mother's door. And in order for my mother not to be shocked they readjusted my clothes and they saw that nothing was rumpled and I looked very comfortable next to the apartment door, so when my mother would open the door it wouldn't be that much of a shock."

"Superman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that respect, I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn't going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly."

"The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants."

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you."

"Pretty girls make graves"

"When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom."

"Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??"

"...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING."

"Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious."

"The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out."

"All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road."

"Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing."

"My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love."

"The beauty of things must be that they end."

"And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight."

"Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off."

"For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me."

"Sure baby, ma�ana. It was always ma�ana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––ma�ana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven."

"There are worse things than being mad."

"His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line."

"Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree."

"LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle."

"It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her."