Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

To dwell is to garden.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

One of my favorite games when I was a kid was 'murder/suicide'. Dad would show us a photo and ask us: 'Is it a murder or a suicide ?'

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

If a situation is very, very turbulent, it has low validity, and there's no basis for intuition.

They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.

You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.