Marilyn Manson

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

I like to surprise myself.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

If you get good at what you do, part of getting there is enjoying what other players do.

And of all the things I look forward to in life, falling in love with you is at the top of the list.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

I’m a product of pop culture.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

When you make changes in your life, make sure you’re moving toward the things you want.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.