“If the stuff you’re writing is not for yourself, it won’t work.”

Love isn’t soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Some things were better lost than found.

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

Don’t give me what I ask for, give me what I need.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

I think that we’re all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better after all.

The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.

My point is, I don’t see the need to eat animals. I love animals; besides the horrible stuff that’s put in meat, I actually love cuddling with animals and petting them and stuff.

Usually, I get bored of my stuff almost immediately.

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

Just don’t hold back. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes and stuff.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

Your soul cannot take material things with it. All the “stuff” does not matter. How you make others feel matters.

We do lots of Stuff. The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.

One thing rap and rock have in common, a lot of it is focused on negativity. I like dark stuff.