Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love.

Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.

Their dad was the god of thieves, but they were about a stealthy as water buffalos.

The past is a bucket of ashes

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore?