Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.

We are not the policy department, except for those of us who are, " Jackaby revised.

I whispered across the bars to Jackaby as I rose, "Shall I tell them the truth?""Have you killed anyone?" he asked, quietly."No, of course not!""Then I can't imagine why you shouldn't.

To the attention of the New Fiddleham Police Department: You've got my middle-C, and I would like it back....Please return Jackaby's tuning fork. He's getting even more obnoxious than usual.

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

Every person has felt pain, some deeper than others, some pain inmeasurable It is a choice to reframe that pain as power to create change~bns

Nature like a kind and smiling mother lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

Everything I do is Mingus.

People ask all the time, 'What would you be doing if you weren't Kid Rock?' It's simple: I'd be broke Kid Rock.

What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.

I used to dream, and I used to vow; I wouldn't dream of it now.