Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings.

I'm only going one way.

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

Awkward, odd, and difficult situations will always present themselves. You just have to stay cool and work through them.

Suicide is not a remedy

Hope regards problems, small or large, as opportunities.

My band and I, we cover our bodies in hairspray and glitter. We use the hairspray to make sure the glitter sticks.

When you're famous you can't go to Topshop. Even when I disguise myself in a moustache, baseball cap, sunglasses - the full Madonna kit - it doesn't work: my stupid face is too big.

Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.