I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

we became the books we read.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.

I'm not Triple H, and I certainly am not John Cena.

Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.