“You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.”

“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”

“Basically, men are afraid of women and can’t handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.”

“It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”

“I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.”

“When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension”

“Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.”

“You can get away with a lot of shit if it looks like it`s all you know how to do.”

“Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.”

“The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.”

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.”

“I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better”

“Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.”

“You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.”

“Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.”

“It is you who makes me see what I really am.”

“Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.”

“I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.”

“You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.”

“Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.”

“Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

“He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.”

“I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking”

“I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.”

“You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.”

“No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.”

“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.”

“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.”