I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti

There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

A river unneeded still finds its way down to the ocean...

Better to be dirty than dead.

It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.

It's not the kind of tuna that I eat.

As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.

Where would rock and roll be without feedback?

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me.