I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day.

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

True lovers are as rare as true rebels.

Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots.

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.

Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.

The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.

One of the liberating things about having a blog is the total vision it allows.

Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.

At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

Ask the poor. They'll tell you who the christians are.

The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.

Radio is less important than it used to be. Kids are not just hip-hop kids, just punk kids, just pop kids, just whatever kids. Everyone is mixing and matching on their playlists.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

To love is a brave thing. To be loved, braver still. But allowing yourself to love yourself? That takes the most courage of all.

Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever.