My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.

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

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

Suicide is very contagious.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

People will try to frustrate you in life. But you have to decide to stay focus and determined to realize your goal.

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

My dream was to fall in love and be a mom. I never thought too much past those two things.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you're going to have - that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home.

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own.

Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.

Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.