You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

With death comes honesty.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

My heart broke open and history fell in.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

Reality is a question of perspective.