“Don’t fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not.”

“You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.”

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.”

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”

“Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay”

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.”

“I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.”

“You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.”

“I was foolish because I believed in you. You are a fool because you believe in yourself!”

“Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.”