Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?

He was a writer and words were his weapons.

I've won Satan's lottery.

She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.

You sure about this writer thing son?

Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones.

Rivera rubbed his temples. "Satan told you to do it?" he said wearily."No.""Elvis?""I told you, it's supernatural.

Point your fire like a flower.

Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it.

When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job.

Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage.

You tell me another gang that's got a dental plan.

The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.