Fights problems with bigger problems.

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.

Change anything about your life that cannot be accepted. Accept everything about your life that cannot be changed and move on with your big dreams!

You are either a player or a spectator! Players influence the game while spectators watch them to do it. Such is life!

Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream.

The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist.

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.