I wanna outrace the speed of pain.

Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.

I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.