Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.

We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.