I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.