Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)

We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to the world from running you plumb crazy

I love being on the road, I love playing.

Strength is an empty shell.

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'