. . . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some crisis, some fall from classical greatness, some corruption or evil to be saved from.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...

You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.

I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer.

It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

Life must go on; I forget just why.

Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.