We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Music is your only friend until the end...

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!

Getting drunk . . . you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like . . . I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .

Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he's been taught—all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.

Death Makes Angels of us all.