Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore
truth. . . is the first casualty of tyranny.
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Food is my drug of choice.
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.
Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.
When you're young, you're not really worried too much about what people think. You're just in this beautiful, natural place with creativity, and it's just flowing through you, whereas after a few years and a few records, you have all these pressures starting to build on your back.
I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.