It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

I don't know if I want to be a big star though.

If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.

It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.

That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

Like readily consorts with like.

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

I make sure that my pictures are not too erotic and that they always have a trace of humor. I make sure they are ‘in good taste.’ Either you understand it or not.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.