After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

Now when I die, I shall only be dead.

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

She sounded angry. That was the way she'd been as long as he'd known her. If she became ill, it irritated her. She was annoyed by sickness. She seemed to regard it as a personal affront.

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.

Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.

I appreciate everything that I have, versus taking it for granted.

As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction

[Jack Johnson]gave me my whole start in music, which was the coolest thing ever.

I actually love fish and vegetables. I was raised on vegetables! Anything green - spinach, broccoli, brussels sprouts - I crave.

I think my face and voice suit me better as I get older.

There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them.

I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.