If the land of make believe is inside your heart it will never leave.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.

It's crazy to close doors to any genres.

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

We need to pay attention to the questions non-Christians are asking, and the conversations that Christians are having.

I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.

I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.