The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice.

You can't slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve.

The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.

Pain or damage don't end the world.

Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.

The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.

Don't I yearn for the days when a draw across the throat made f**king resolution.

Change ain't looking for friends. Change calls the tune we all dance to.

Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.

Yeah, the cut throats and the pigs. But who wants all that blood spilled, judge, huh? Isn't there a simpler way of not pissing off the big vipers?

I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.

..."vers libre, " (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

Do you want to lead, or do you want to be liked?

God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.

The way to gain a friend is to be one

I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.

A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.