Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

Since love is a magic, Valentine's Day is the day of magicians! Whoever loves creates a magic; whoever is loved, a magic is created!

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden