If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.

Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner

There are no big groupie fans or anything.

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.

I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

My grandfather will adore you.""Because...?""You're not normal.""I see we're back to trading insults.""I meant that as a compliment.

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.

The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Jesus is the sanctuary every time we gather with other believers. We need that truth to soak into our hearts.

[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.