The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

Brown is a manly color

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Sometimes I amaze even myself.

I'm not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven't embraced conservatism and religion. I'm not opposed to religion if you keep it out of my life.

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.

Another important time when I feel most alive is when I hear a song that I love so much that all I can do is dance - I feel so free!

It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.

You don't know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night, Scared at the thought of kissing razors