“People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.”

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”

“Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.”

“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”

“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”

“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”

“Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.”

“The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.”

“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”

“Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.”

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs t...”