Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.

Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.

We are not going to keep the window open forever.

I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.

The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early

I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.

If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.