Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.

Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want." -Bob Dylan's Dad

I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

In Russia, we had tough times. Only one puck, I always wanted the puck, so I learn how to keep it and make space and get puck when other guy has it.

Upon awakening, let the words Thank You flow from your lips, for this will remind you to begin your day with gratitude and compassion.