He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Don't be afraid to be exactly as awesome as you were created to be.

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.

Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.

Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw.

Music is the voice of all sorrow, all joy. It needs no translation.

Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.

You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.