Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart. All of his money appeared to have been spent on either books or shelves to hold them.

I do not dye my hair blackso as to be young again and sin againbut because people dye their clothes black in mourning, so I have dyed my hair black, mourning for my old age.

I don't think there are any true heroes. Just people who ignore their survival instincts long enough to do something incredibly foolhardy.

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

When you're quite young, your imagination's quite free.

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.

When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.

My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.