Oh, for Christ's sake, ' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head.

I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.

It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.

The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.

I'm dating myself, but this was before Jesus Christ. We worshiped a God named Sashatiba, who had five eyes, including one on the Adam's apple.

Pray for me and I am blessed today, teach me to pray and I will see you in heaven

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.

Everything you do with Palestinians in Israel someone will criticize.

Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.

The vamp in McMann’s stared at me. I guess he didn’t like the Goth look. Most of them don’t; somehow they think I’m making fun of them. Which I totally am.

With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.

I love being able to help and encourage my friends and I try to inspire them as they do me.

Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.