He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.

The covetous man is always poor.

What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?

Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.

God alone knows how to bring success and strengthen us in it

What hurts the most?Rejection..

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.

One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and you make love to the prettiest bridesmaid, usually standing from behind.

Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

If you drink O'Douls, you don't drink; but if you drink 20 O'Douls in a half hour, then you're a non-alcoholic.

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.