You see, I needed to go to Hell.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

I think Elvis Presley will never be solved

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think.

I don't have a college degree.

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Now me and musicplay hide and seek.

There's always more to the story, Catriona, " She replied. "That's the wonderful thing about stories.

Oh, well, that's not bad, I suppose. I mean, I'd prefer devastatingly sophisticated - but almost endearing is more than I could have hoped for under the circumstances.

The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.