I was in awe of him. I didn't speak; I listened. He was flawless.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

I liked the way he handled himself in the kitchen. I like men who cook. Men who cook are generally good lovers.

I was in that dark, self-destructive place. I was up one minute, down the next. Soaring and crashing and crashing and soaring; the roller coaster from hell.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

"I don't remember any blue poodles."

"I am the Golux, the only Golux in the world and not a mere device"

"Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve not seen."

"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."

"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself."

"With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs."

"We all have faults, mine is being wicked."

"I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could."

"I was in chemical jail."

"Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready."

"When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity."

"If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean."

"Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power."

"Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation."

"...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine."

"When I'm up to something I find it very hard to realize that I probably look no different from the way I look on other occasions."

"What an extraordinary satisfaction there is in cleaning things! (Does the satisfaction depend on ownership? I suspect so.)"

"I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person."