Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

Jeese, I thought, fear choking me. I was being targeted by a ‘tangoed’ psychopath!

As the season changes, we learn to adapt.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

I'm a bit of a hippie.

Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.

I know that I may never be a star. This could all just go away at any time. I know that just because I have a record out doesn't mean I'm going to make it

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.