If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

My Greatest Failures has been My Greatest Success~

There was a time where I chose my jobs based on what jobs were available to me, so I would choose 100 percent of them.

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.

I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.

Cry Baby wasn't necessarily a baby theme but I understand what they're saying. So like, Cry Baby is definitely a remaining character throughout all of my albums.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

Bluebeard, who said to Scottland Yard, How do I know how many wives I've killed? I'm not an accountant! Never got a dinner!

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.