God won't let me into heaven because I'm too evil.

I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.

I'm not a bona fide human being.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Paul McCartney has a voice that can do anything!

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.

Lenny Bruce died from an overdose of police

The best part of breaking up... is when you're making up.

I've always had a problem within myself of feeling that people didn't really see me as a musician and I'm out to get a bit of musical credibility.

Life is in infinite motion

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

I think it's very hard to be sexually explicit and erotic - though there are writers, like K. M. Soehnlein, who are just brilliant at this.

I have sort of a visceral aversion to the prominence of the either active duty, in the case of General McMaster, or retired general officers filling political, civilian positions.

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

You are your child's keeper until she's mature enough to keep herself.

I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract.