We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are.

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

I was afraid and knew I had every right to be, but he had awakened a part of me that no longer cared.

You mean you don't want to come in and hold my hand while I piss?

There is no redemption in a cruel man's love.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, wishes. Who looks inside, finds infinite wisdom.

Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me.

Tell you what, why don’t we go ask her brothers what they think of your claim?”“I’d rather beat you to a pulp.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression.

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

Kindness in giving creates love.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.