Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

I guess I'm inspired by other people who are successful.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.

What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.

Each breath is transforming me into thine image.

Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.

Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.