There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

No one survives life.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

nothing but a soul can feel what the heart says nothing but a soul can understand what the mind says.

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.

God gave these ten laws for our good. He wants us to be our very best and to get the most that is possible our of life.

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

I naturally own a lot of very old magazines. And I enjoy going to old magazines because the advertisements in those magazines tended to have thousands of words of copy in them.

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.

I have found the one whom my soul loves.

Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.