"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth."
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
"You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."
"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."
"I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are."