I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.

This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?

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

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

This is the culture your raising your kids in, don't be suprised when it blows up in your face.

Art is a big question mark.

I have assumed the role of Antichrist; I am the Nineties voice of individuality and people tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity...

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

But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

Your beautiful don't let anyone tell you different

There's nothing like the feeling of knowing that you've made a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

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).

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.

You see people in the left lane, and as long as they are on the speed limit, they stay there. Get in the right lane and let people pass you - let the police worry about somebody who wants to speed. Don't force them pass in the right lane and zig zag, which can create an accident, just because you think you're correct.