homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.

It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326)

I'm a big nerd. I geek out when I walk into Comic-Cons. This is like my heaven.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.

‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial