The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

The ultimate aim of reality is to become science fiction!

In the darkness, she listened to the silence. She wallowed in the beautiful nothing it made.

Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an Angel.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq. We've been following time as it goes forward. What a classic mistake. Linear time is so pre-9-11.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity.

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.

To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.

A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.