I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.

I’m not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably.

All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.

I know I believe in nothing, but it is my nothing.

We are young, beautiful scum pissed off with the world.

It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

Love is an impossible concept.

When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awake that slumbering Progress.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

I like to encourage people to give locally. It's easy to find and call a local no-kill shelter and see what specific things they need, and believe me, all of them are always in need of something.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.