There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

My life is mine to remember.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

We boil at different degrees.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

Faith never makes a confession.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

I don’t write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

I was a thug.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

I think and that is all that I am.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

I’m always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.