We'll teach it that the humblest insect measuring out its miserable days by the pug-wuggery and skull duggery of the old Slug of Time is worth far more than this defecating bubble!

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind.

You show true friends the ugly--and trust them enough to turn it into something beautiful.

Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.

Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.

I finally crashed. I drove like an idiot all day.

Stay with me. I’ll show you things that’ll make you laugh in delight, scream in passion, cry for the sheer joy of it.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.