You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.

On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l'activité sociale effective.

With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?

I dare walk alone on my sacred path.

If you're sad and you like beer, I'm your lady, ... The Saddest Music in the World.

You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.