You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Why dwell on negative thoughts? When you can think positively.

Show yourself to the darkness, they said, and then you will see your face." --Nero SlyvenskiALL LIGHT WILL FALL

Be lucky, Xander, and be brave. You will find that bravery and luck are often bedfellows.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.