Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

Always remember that you have the right to be positively different.

Never try to separate soul-mates

Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.

You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.

Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

The best way to improve your team is to improve yourself.

I'm the hardest person to buy a gift for.

Where [a]can you trust your own thoughts and your own intentions? Everywhere, hopefully, but it isn't always that easy. Sometimes, you have to help yourself along.