“Did you know that a laugh is something that comes out of a hole in your face? Anywhere else and you're in dead trouble!”

“"You don't know my father. He'll laugh in your face and offer you some money to mail my body back to Idris."
"Don't be absurd-"
"You're right. Coming to think of it, he'll probably make you pay for the shipping charges yourself."”

“You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.”

“When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange.”

“If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.”

“I miss her. I don't know how to live without her. There is a hole inside me that nothing fills.
If you don't find something to fill that hole, someone else will. And if someone else fills it, they own you. Forever. You'll never get yourself back.”

“If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.”

“If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.”

“I am looking for the holes,
The holes in your jeans
Because I want to know:
Are they worn out in the seat,
Or are they worn out in the knees?”

“When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.”