"It is not ***** or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality."

“The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.”

“I'm not letting any 17 year old beat me tonight”

“It is the nature of human beings not to be able to leave nature alone.”

“I used to think success would be sustainability. Not being behind the eight ball.”

Source : "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.

“Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.”

“It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.”

“The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird.”

Source : Interview with Spin, thechilisource.com. December 1991.