Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you’re in love with the way your characters bleed.

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased.

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.

There is nothing to me but you. I know it’s pathetic but, oh darling, it’s true.

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you’re too busy living.

My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.

The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It’s the tender understanding that we’re living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there’s quite a bit of wonder in that.

Honestly, I don’t know what I would recommend from this story. Perhaps it is this: if you have the choice to laugh or do nothing, you might as well laugh.

Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

I like to challenge myself.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

I love the intensity of the Psalms. No-one ever sounds bored about God or about life in the Psalms.

What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.

When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.

I can't cater to everyone's needs and what they're going to be offended by; that's one freedom I have.

I'm from New York, so I'm a big Howard Stern fan.

The Highest Being reveals himself in man.