To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

Don't kill the golden goose.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.

What are the politics of boredom?

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

For a brokenhearted person memories are the vital parts of misery

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

I love you, Clary wanted to say. And, I would do it again. I would always ask for you.

One of the things I firmly believe about seemingly risky decisions is that you can't fully imagine how things can be better while you're in the thing you don't quite like.

It's not that we're trying to avoid death; we're trying to enjoy our lives fully, to wring every wonderful drop out of life that we possibly can.

Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

Tolerance and human rights require each other.