To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies.

The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.

If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

Forgiven sin is better than accumulated wrath.

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.

I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.