Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.

People may not see you the way you see yourself. But, that's because they don't want to acknowledge your uniqueness. Jealousy is not disguised.

We must be able to look under the surface rather than over-analyze it and delude ourselves into thinking we’re seeing beneath it.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

A good way to forget your troubles is to help others out of theirs.

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

Good character improves every aspect of a person’s life.

Let me arise and open the gate, to breathe the wild warm air of the heath, And to let in Love, and to let out Hate, And anger at living and scorn of Fate, To let in Life, and to let out Death.