Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

She was always like this, only moves when her mind and heart tells her to move, not doing what everyone demanded her to do.

The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has become the secret friend of their author.

A Web site is the only medium of semipermanent communication where you can express yourself.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

I'd like to be more approachable, not less weird

I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version so I want to see their version.

I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.

The music industry is such a huge machine. There are still a lot of good people in it, but the character of the industry and the culture of the industry is very fast.

Every disposable job makes you partially suicidal. But I've always worked because I need to buy drugs and wigs so I could go out in drag and get wasted!