There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

... there is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

I love technology - yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I'm all for new technology.

From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.

I'll close my eyes, so I won't see, all of the love that you don't feel for me.

You have to be a little bad to make history.

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

Together we will be unstoppable.

I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find offensive.

Shutup, lapdog, this isn’t your fight, either. Boy, you better counsel that tongue before you find yourself without it.

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.