I can't make it fade.

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?

If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.

And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.

I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.

He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.

You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope.

—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.

If you're brave enough to get through the darkness then you shall shine in the light.

And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

That's what metal means to me, feeling that feeling when you hear something that totally turns you on.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.