The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

They say seven stages of grief. I think it's more like 77.

I found so many reasons to call it 'You're Dead!' - not just because I wanted to make this album about the journey through death. I was watching the music scene that I came up with kind of go stale and watching the lights go out on a lot of my friends.

Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it.

There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.