Only after a person has their heart broken does the world appear as it truly is.

I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.

Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.

What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.

Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.

Stop worrying about someone else's feelings for once and worry about your grade.

Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she'll die happy. If she lives the way you want her to live, she'll die miserable. So leave her alone, okay?

We love the things that destroy us, because in that destruction we truly feel alive.

...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.

Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it.