Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

When you are up in life your friends get to know who you are. When you are down in life you get to know who your friends are.#minoradjustments101

Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish.

It came out sparkling like liquid sky.

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

The argument is at an end.