It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

What I experience of change is either the flow of the movement of change or my resistance to it.

Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.

Where there is no sense of urgency, there is usually a strong habit of procrastination.

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

Do more of what you love, less of what you tolerate and none of what you hate.

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.