America: Land of the free and home of the gun. We are not brave, we are cowards, or we would have done something, anything after Newtown. Instead we did Nothing.

Guns give Evil a means to expression.

Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.

I had too much fun was no one's last regret ever.

There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.

As a young girl, my real dream was to be the woman in the shows at SeaWorld.

I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel.

No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.