As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

Curiosity is the ultimate power tool.

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

In 1956 I was granted the biggest reward of my career: my wife, Josée Jongen.

I'm not the new kid on the block anymore. Writers always use the phrase "aging rocker," and I'm like, "What other option do I have?" You're either aging or you're dead.

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

If I see a problem (in the clubhouse), I say something right away. I don't wait two or three days.

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.