Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves, the misfits.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

The more you are positive and say: "I want to have a good life." The more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

My nipples could cut glass.

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.

An old man is twice a child.

You fake something until you're good at it.

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

Once upon a time there was no Time.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

Live without seeing, but be what you are.

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

these are the screams within these are the life streams bleeding from skin