To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?

I’ve had the kind of bad day no quote can fix.

At an age when most children love to play with toys, he played with weapons.

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Nico leaned over and plucked a grape. Probably that was the guy’s entire diet for the day.

I really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.