Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren’t. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

Sex pretty much cures everything.