Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind.

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have much choice about enduring it! We will, whether we want to or not.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.