Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

Everything means nothing to me

I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story.

The light shines brightly in the darkness.

Every Christian has the chance to become successful, if he will make the decision to fulfill God’s will in his life

Discover. Read. Learn.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: this is not happening in my backyard.

But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.

The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.