You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The hardest thing of all, is just standing in front of a mirror and not recognizing the reflection.

When I said, “I am my mother, but I’m not,” I was saying my path would be my own.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.

The self is hateful." But "I" is passable. ("Le moi est haïssable". - Mais le Je est passable.)

Until you are able to answer the question of self, you'll still be living under someones shadows

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

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

And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is "me"?

My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself.

Maybe it's not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book.