We are the people our parents warned us about.

I eat the hearts of girls and puke slugs and snails.

It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.

The stars are on the inside. They are effing beautiful.

If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!

Real is better, The truth is better. Painful but better.

Asking's the easy bit. Then there's everything that comes after.

My dad was a magician too. Got in his car and disappeared.

i could go if i wantedshare the floorboards with someonein a place less haunted but i like it hereand i’m happy to stay in this mess on my ownin this home i have built for myself in my bones

You’re not like other girls, you know that, right?’ Ed asks.‘I’ve been aware of the problem, ’ I tell him.

Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin.

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

Life never seems to go the way you imagine it will.

In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.