Be happy. Be free. You have a universe inside you.

May your song guide you home.

Freedom is a state of mind.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

You must learn to control your money, or to the permanent deprivation control you

Christ took our hell so that we might take His heaven.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!

When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

They don't know that I'm already asking for the moon.

Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.

Don't we all just really try to fake it well?