“The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.”

“In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.”

“I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.”

“I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out.”

“perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.”

“I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.”

“Life will not break your heart. It will crush it.”

“It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.”

“I'm not close to people, I am close to myself. I spend a lot of time inside.”

“What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.”

“Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.”

“We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.”

“A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.”

“A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.”

“I hope I don't dream tonight. Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.”

“She is the gin. Cold, intoxicating. Gives you a rush, makes you warm inside, makes you lose your head. Take too much, it makes you sick and shuts you down.

“I will not die. I will not break. I will not move. Face it. You’ll go to your grave knowing you never had what it took to stop me.”

“You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.”

“Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness. When I see you, the room swallows me. I find myself at the bottom of the pool.”

“I have gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain.”

“The past is the Jabberwock. Forget not the fallen, but beware the jaws and claws. With your vorpal blade going snicker-snack, kill the fucker, as you go galumphing on.”

“I shoved three CDs up my ass and got them out of Tower Records. It hurt like hell but I did it. New Michael Bolton, new Sting, and the best of Sammy Hagar. Totally painful. Definitely worth it.”

“Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength.”

“I've said it before and I say it again: "A man's got to do what a brainless idiot's got to do.”

“If it's a man's world, as they say, then men: your world is a poorly run carnage fest.”

“I learned that you can get away with a lot of shit if you just do it like it’s all you knew how to do.”

“I live in my head. It’s the only place I can go where everybody knows me.”

“I don't have talent, I have tenacity.”

“I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on.”

“She can break your fall Or let you fall and break And every time you jump You just know she’s going to catch you”

“In my world there would be as many libraries as there are Starbucks.”

“People that you thought were your friends give you shit about working hard. All I know is that we play hard and a lot of this shit is not fun. Playing is great but the way we live is not the life of a rockstar.”

“It would be nice to be touched by hands that didn’t want to kill or congratulate me. Sometimes the hands that want to kill me are mine.”

“I think that I’m running from something I heard on the radio That everybody’s working for the weekend When does the weekend start? What comes at the end of the week? The end? Picture a tired dog chasing its tail”

“You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.”

“I wear my sunglasses. Keeps you on one side and me on the other.”

“I’m twenty-three and I sound like I’m fifty-five.”

“I was listening to the radio the other day in California and one of our songs came on and I jumped because I couldn’t find my microphone. Now that’s damage.”

“I will never be able to pound words into lines To match the velocity of your presence”

“Don’t let them scar you with their weakness. They will cripple you with their lives. They will make you want to die just to get away from them.”

“There’s a great feeling when you’re totally resolved. When you make the jump from being lonely to being only. When you’re so totally alone and absolute.”

“I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters telling me to go back to Russia or whatever.”

“I will do to you what you taught me. I will pass my fingers over my scars and read them like Braille and they will tell me what to do.”

“In the place of the things I have denied myself, I have things that mean more to me than sex, fun and happiness ever could.”

“I couldn’t tell if I was being distant to someone, or rude or even hostile. I only know a good night and a bad night. I know that I remember the bad night longer than the good night.”

“If you’re finding life to be the one thing that’s trying to kill you, I want you to stay alive to rise with the sun and fight back.”

“It hurt to pull out the slivers but I knew that I couldn’t bleed anymore, I had lost too much blood already. Now I remain, scarred and regaining strength.”

“Freedom gives you everything you need to fail on a monumental scale.”

“I think to myself and at the same time, I know these thoughts can’t be the ones I really want to think. That there must be something better to have on my mind than what fills it and refuses to stop occupying all the room.”

“Life has no instruction manual. Parts and labor can be impossible to find. Many go down the road with parts that are in great need of service. A breakdown is eventual.”