Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?

The Bible is useful because it opens our eyes, and because it’s highly impractical to walk through life with our eyes closed.

If no one seems to understandStart your own revolution and cut out the mid

Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed...

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.

Text is the gateway drug to real time marketing.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

Sometimes, kismet happens.