I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.

No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

No one survives life.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop

If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it.

Do it because you WANT to, not just because you HAVE to. When you do what you want, you create an Unstoppable POWER.

But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.

Throw the computer away and don't look on the internet. That's the best thing to do.

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.

Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].

Buhari is a child crawling at 72, he has nothing to offer