"Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore."
- Marilyn Manson
"But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people as much as Santa ..."
"I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid."
"My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more beast than human, and I had grown up to be him, locked in the basement with my secrets as the rest of ..."
"The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth."
"Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not ..."
"The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you."
"The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining tha..."
"I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with "hail Satan," but I couldn't bring myself to do so. It seemed too empty and ritualistic, like wearing a uniform ..."