I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard

If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it’s out of your system and in their hands. I always think it’s therapeutic.

As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.

Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?

If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects of shaping our personalities and humanity.

I traveled into the future to get back in time.

In the end we're all Jerry Springer guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.

Without the threat of death there's no reason to live.

I needed to stop being victimized by my own weaknesses and insecurities about other people,

The fact that nobody liked me at school began to fade out of my mind like blue magic marker reminders scrawled on the back of a greasy fist.” greasy fist.” - Marilyn Manson

[...] morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [...] it's so much easier to talk about your beliefs than to live up to them

Hello world and hello universe. Thank you all very much

Art to me is a question mark.

Everybody has a light and a dark side, and neither can exist without the other.

Haters call me bitch, call me faggot, call me whitey, but I am something you could never be

People don’t keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don’t want to tell but they want everyone to know.

Pictures of naked women and strip dancers make me violent

I’ve always been paranoid about the police, because even when I’m not doing anything illegal I’m thinking about doing something illegal.

[...] extremes—whether good or bad—don't fit into society's definition of normality

The key to changing the way people think is to change what’s popular. That’s why rather than submit to the mainstream, you have to become it—and then overcome it.

Books are good because they are thick and you can hit someone with it.

People don’t necessarily confide in one another to get something off their chest. They want something: reassurance, which is a hard gift to give convincingly.

I’ve always believed that a person is smart. It’s people that are stupid.

Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it’s a lot easier to hate someone you’ve cared about than someone you never have.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

It wasn`t very useful preparation for the real world: turning all these graduates loose every year with the expectation that life will be fair and everyone will be treated equally.

We spoke of religion, and how much of it is just a custom preserving practical codes of health, morality and justice that are no longer necessary for group survival (like not eating animals with cloven hooves).