You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do.

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

You guys have so much energy. I threw a party in Toronto and there were, like, 4,000 people who couldn't get in.

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.