Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

the possession of power brings on madness.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Support your partner in their interests. You never know when batting practice, kung fu movie moves, or even a poker night might come in handy during a zombie infestation.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.

I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

Books have their destinies.

There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.