"I can have oodles of charm when I want to."

"She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind."

"You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do."

"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."

"All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies."

"There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore."

"If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice."

"And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."

"If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?"

"Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind."

"We are what we imagine ourselves to be."

"I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking."

"There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia."

"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."

"Until you die .. it's all life."

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."

"The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody."

"Everything is nothing, with a twist."

"The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death."

"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."

"Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?"

"A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society."

"Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet"

"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer."

"In nonsense is strength"

"Life is no way to treat an animal."

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.

You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.

‎Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way bitch!

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.

They can't scare me, if I scare them first.

Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?

I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.

If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness.

I'm a free bitch baby

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

People will always talk, so lets give them sumthin to talk about

Cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face...

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.