The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

There's no safety outside of God.

Without trust in the possibilities for your life, where would you be? Where would any of us be? Our hopes for the future give us momentum.

Don't be concerned with other women's beauty. Only admire God's amazing work and wish them well., this earth was made to bite us in half and grind us to bone, but we were made to be kind.

You must be the most beautiful and sophisticated thief I have ever met. Secretly you stole my heart without my knowledge.

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.