"I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths."

“We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

“The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.”

“We are chained to that which we do not forgive”

“Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."”

“The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for.”

“Basically I just had to say, Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music. So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.”

“Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”

“There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers was an uneven orbit around a dark star, a moth circling a dead bulb, searching for the light it once held.”