Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Your knowledge of failure is the way for the new phase of it!

You don't deserve it if you don't fight for it or maybe you never deserved it to start with

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.

Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.

That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.