Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear.

Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

Understanding why is never enough.

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.

Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

I never knew what it meant being a slave until I quitted religion

Men are so easy to manipulate, poor things.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different.

There are also a number of humans living up there (Canada), and in many ways they have a lifestyle quite similar to ours, including such traditional American activities as driving Japanese cars.

Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op?

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

I trust myself, and I trust Life to support and protect me.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

Money is the reward for risks taken, value delivered and promises kept.