We love cats more than we love women [with Marilyn Manson].

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

Humility is patient because it is neither past nor forward seeking — it is content.

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French.

Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever we do has an implication and has an effect, and because of that it is political.

It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.

We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.