There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.

Oh no, " I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.

This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I'll admit, because up to now I'd not done much more than be, and when I wasn't just being, I'd caused some pain, too.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself.

We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.

The Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation.

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study, and you have to live your life.