The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.

sometimes there's nothing to say about death.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.

If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.