I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Death is a very important part of life.

My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target.

My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way.

There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it.

Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

You can buy muscles, but you can't buy COJONES!

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

There are no limits, you are only limited by however far you want to be limited

He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.

Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible."

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.