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

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.

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

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

Pictures of naked women and strip dancers make me violent

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.

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

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

Art to me is a question mark.

Hello world and hello universe. Thank you all very much

[...] 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

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

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

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

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

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

I traveled into the future to get back in time.

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.

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

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

Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire

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.

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.

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.