I'm too conceited for therapy.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?

Send me flowers while I'm alive. They won't do me a damn bit of good after I'm dead.

Passion is the soul of youth.

And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion

And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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Why is it better to last than to burn?

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.