When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

Even when we are lost, God has not lost us.

You must have brought the bad weather with youThe sky's the color of leadAll you've left me is a featherOn an unmade bed

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

Our infrastructure will again be the best and we will restore the pride in our communities, our nation, and all over the United States we'll be proud again.

...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

Many have told me through the years: 'I think I'll take my chances without Jesus.' And I always come back and say, 'So what chance is that?'