...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.

I want to - we're working toward Justice League, and I really want to create the - part of the thing I really want to create is the possibility of a world where they could exist together.