From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

It is only error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill.

Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

Judaism was not a religion but a law.

You're beautiful, Roza. So beautiful it hurts me.

Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when it comes to Islam.