If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, the dish is not going to work out.

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings.

That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.

One is but a shade of the other.

Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.

I'm not going to talk too much politics because I'm not smart enough to do that.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.

It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

When your heart speaks, take good notes.

Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.

I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird?

People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.