Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

One time I was singing along with a boy that looked like me in the crowd and he pushed away the mic and started making out with me and accidently bit my lip and I had to get stitches.

Usually, old ladies tell me to find Jesus. Look, I'm just trying to find some chai and a good vegan muffin.

Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for our own disgusting dietary and fashion wants and needs.

Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

I'm a moron because I don't want to lie in a gutter puking over myself... yeah right

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.

To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.

Sinning when alone is easy but Worshipping alone is difficult.

If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide.

Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

I know I want to help people and inspire people. That's my purpose in life.

An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

What I tend to tell my students is, “When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable.”

Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.