Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then sort of lose my footing with it.

Sometimes I'll go out to say hi to people, and I'm just not ready for it. It feels too weird, too intense.

Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing.

I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.

It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people.

What I'm confessing is that I've grown to a point where I feel like I should have more answers, and I don't. And I still think that applies in the George Saunders stuff.

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back, what was on my mind at the time.

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

Reading will help you to discover your sacred-self

What needs to be done will be done by grace.

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Jump Street merging with MiB I think that's clean and rad and powerful.

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.

I find that students are very strong on my issues, stronger than anyone: anti-death penalty, anti-racial profiling, campaign finance reform, questioning the anti-terrorism bill.