"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."

"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."

"I talk to God, but the sky is empty."

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."

"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise."

"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."

"Rem tene, verba sequntur (Keep to the subject, and the words will follow)"

"I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to."

"I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients."

"You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader."

"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."