Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

There is not one harsher, more sure-fire way to fail than that of the man who tries to be like Jesus without submitting to Jesus.

I wasn't planning to lead, I was standing in the back and then everyone turned around.

Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.

The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years.

Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment.

The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.

Drumming is my middle name.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.