“The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.”

“All I care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you.”

“Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.”

“We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.”

“Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.”

“The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.”

“Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. For every profit in one thing, payment in some other thing. For every life, a death. Even your music, of which we have heard so much, that had to be paid for. Your wife was the payment for your music. Hell is now satisfied.”