I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.

A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché.

It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles

I don't really know how to do much else besides write.

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.

You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.

For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true

LIBERAL, n. A man with his mind open at both ends.

The less you fear, the more power you will have.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

The law of process says — leaders develop daily, not in a day.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.