Aaron Miller

“I tripped on the sunlight streaming through a trellis fence. The pattern of shade became a three-dimensional revelation, a maze containing the very mystery of life, a key connecting all feelings to all forms.”
― Scott Weiland, Not Dead and Not for Sale

“I loved Jannina, but, having met Mary, realized that I was never IN love with Jannina. What's the difference? I could answer with a single word--obsession. I see love, like art, like an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.”
― Scott Weiland, Not Dead and Not for Sale

“I've thought about death often in recent weeks, but not really about God. My mother took me to church occasionally--but I don't recall ever connecting that up with the thought of God. She mentioned Him quite often, and I had to pray to Him at night, but I never thought much about it. I remember Him as a distant uncle with a long beard on a throne (like Santa Claus in the department store on his big chair, who picks you up on his knee and asks you if you've been good, and what would you like him to give you?). She was afraid of Him, but asked favors anyway. My father never mentioned Him--it was as if God was one of Rose's relatives he'd rather not get involved with.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“I liked the feeling of entering an alternate energy field. I liked the psychological and chemical rearrangement brought on by the alcohol.”
― Scott Weiland, Not Dead & Not for Sale: The Earthling Papers, a Memoir (Paperback) - Common