What is the matter with you?""You want an alphabetical list?

Knowledge without implementation is but mere information. True knowledge transcends the barrier of the mind and bears fruit within action

Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.

You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.