Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't.

Keep your heart infinitesimally small and sorrow will never spy it, never plunge, never flap away with your heart in her claws.

Blessed are the ignorant fools of the world, for they know not the unspeakable horrors that await us all.

I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.

Bad is never good until worse happens.

I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.