Every person alive thinks they are the center of the universe, that they are everything, when in fact each of us is less than nothing.

By day, Ian was like the stars, there but not there. At night was when the beasts of grief came for her.

The bitter heart eats its owner.

All my trapped tears are in there like poison, but I can't let them out.

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.