"There were always blind, deaf, or handicapped people hanging around the brothers, and I figured it was evidence that they either had a soft, compassionate side or were running some kind of mysterious scam."
— Mick Mars (The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band)

"Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world."
— Vince Neil (The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band)

"There was one dude in a jeans jacket who I swear to God shit in his pants when all of a sudden I was inches away from his face playing drums in the air."
— Tommy Lee (The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band)

"I must have bitten Angus Young too, because his brother Malcolm walked up to me in a rage. I was wearing platform boots, and Malcolm's face was eye level with my belly button. "You fucking bastard," he roared at my navel. "You can bite my brother, fine! But if you fucking bite me, I'll bite your fucking nose off, you dog-faced faggot."
I think I said something like "you and what stepladder," because before I knew it, he was attacking me, climbing up my leg and clawing at my face like a crazed cat."
— Nikki Sixx

"In order to be near us, to hang out with us, it was good to have drugs."
— Joe Perry

"Being a rockstar is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be."
— Slash (Slash)

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. "
— Charles Bukowski

"what matters most is how well you walk through the fire"
— Charles Bukowski

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. "
— Charles Bukowski

"you have to die a few times before you can really
live."
— Charles Bukowski (The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems)

"Life's as kind as you let it be."
— Charles Bukowski (Hot Water Music)

"she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty"
— Charles Bukowski (The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems)

"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."
— Charles Bukowski

"Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help."
— Charles Bukowski

"If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.
"
— Charles Bukowski

"I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me."
— Charles Bukowski

"That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man."
— Charles Bukowski (Factotum)

"How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? "
— Charles Bukowski (Factotum)

"the history of melancholia
includes all of us."
— Charles Bukowski (Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977)

"A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover."
— Charles Bukowski (The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems)

"“You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”"
— Charles Bukowski

"There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you."
— Charles Bukowski (What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire)

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."
— Charles Baudelaire

"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
— Charles Baudelaire

"The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality."
— Charles Baudelaire

"Remembering is only a new form of suffering."
— Charles Baudelaire

"Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?"
— Charles Baudelaire

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven: With, the Philosophy of Composition)

"From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
— John Lennon

"If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal."
— John Lennon

""Love is the funeral of hearts. Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it`s not yours anymore. It`s laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated""
— Ville Valo

"When you do something, do it all the way."
— Ville Valo

"I will not fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomanics, chauvists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, perverts."
— Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones's Diary)

"Actually last night my married lover appeared wearing suspenders and a darling little angora crop top told me he was gay a sex addict a narcotic addict a commitment phobic and beat me up with a dildo."
— Helen Fielding

""Junction nineteen! Una, she came off at Junction nineteen! You've added an hour to your journey before you even started. Come on, let's get you a drink. How's your love life, anyway?"

Oh GOD. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to THEM and roar, "How's your marriage going? Still having sex?" Everyone knows that dating in your thirties is not the happy-go-lucky free-for-it-all it was when you were twenty-two and that the honest answer is more likely to be, "Actually, last night my married lover appeared wearing suspenders and a darling little Angora crop-top, told me he was gay/a sex addict/a narcotic addict/a commitment phobic and beat me up with a dildo," than, "Super, thanks.""
— Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones's Diary)

"Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society."
— Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones's Diary)

""Her name was Bullwinkle. We called her that because she had a face like a moose. But Tommy, even though he could get any girl he wanted on the Sunset Strip, would not break up with her. He loved her and wanted to marry her, he kept telling us, because she could spray her cum across the room.""
— Vince Neil

"
My big awakening happened when I was fourteen. I'd been trying to get into this older girl's pants for a while, and she finally let me come over to her house. We hung out, smoked some pot and listened to Aerosmith's Rocks. It hit me like a fucking ton of bricks. I sat there listening to it over and over, and totally blew off this girl. I remember riding my bike back to my grandma's house knowing that my life had changed. Now I identified with something.”
"
— Slash

"Be to her virtues very kind,
Be to her faults a little blind."
— Matthew Prior (The poetical works of Matthew Prior)

"This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard."
— Neil Gaiman

"Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all."
— Neil Gaiman

"That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake)

"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."
— Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

"...You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds."
"What, a phobia?"
"Sort of."
"Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds."
"What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?"
— Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)