“If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.”

“Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.”

“Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.”

“You know a real friend?Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.”

“To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life…”

“home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.”

“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative”