It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Death is a very important part of life.

My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target.

My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it.

If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer.

Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you

One of life’s greatest lessons is learning from our own mistakes.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth.

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!

I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.