One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'

Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

Never take a person away from the music they love.

I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

There's a lot that's happened in my life that maybe I didn't want to happen, but I suppose it's led me to exactly where I am now.

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

People think that atheists have nothing to live for, but that's not true - it's that we have nothing to die for.

We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.

Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.

The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

It's all about how you look at things. We often choose to make something ugly or beautiful.

Maybe we should remember that logic constructs a box that is far too small for wonder to take up residence in. Therefore, the crucial question is, ‘Will we choose to live there if wonder cannot?

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

God's providence is not blind, but full of eyes.

If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity

In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel and that is its success.

Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience.