But my heart is an old house(the kind my mothergrew up in)hell to heat and cooland faulty in the wiringand though it’s nice to look atI have no businessinviting lovers in.

It’s just so strange.You used to love me, and now you’re a strangerwho happens to know allof my secrets.

All this timeI drank you like the cure when maybeyou were the poison.

My battered heart will always be where the ocean meets the sand, I will break over and overEvery day. That is the best andworst part of me.

Be merciful until you can't be.Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.Then use that bullet.

I will love you when you are a still day.I will love you when you are a hurricane.

The good news is you survived. The bad news is you're hurt and no one can heal you but yourself.

We are more than the worst thing that's ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing, for having been to hell and come back breathing.

I don't know whyI've got so much hopepinned to someone who will never call me home.

YOU NEVER NEED TO APOLOGIZEFOR HOW YOU CHOSE TO SURVIVE

I brought a knife to the gunfight. I am the knife. I am all blade.

I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it

To failure at something is an attempt to succeed. Be strong and try again.

If you need philosophy and you're waiting on the gas chamber, stick to Socrates. At least he had a sense of humor.

when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.

Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.

In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture.

That baby is so ugly... I've never seen a six-month-old so desperately in need of a wax.

All gods are better than their reputation.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

It's very hard to predict what people are thinking.