Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.

Miniskirts have become quite a fad. They're even some guys wearing them. Don't laugh, if you had thought to of that, you'd not be here now.

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.

Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.

You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

I think there are times in life where you're automatically drawn to somebody and it's weird - you freak out a bit.