This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do - and wouldn't last.

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

Higher consciousness means your self consciousness ceases to exist

I am giving my all in all to the sacred moments.

Your life is not a simulation

You don't talk dirty to make him hot. You "talk dirty" to communicate what you need. And most guys, if you go, "Yeah, yeah, just like that, a little more to the left, " they'll do it.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.