I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.

The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind.

But in any situation with long love, I don’t think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.

There's that whole thing that happens in relationships - you can love someone but, as soon as they stop loving you so unconditionally that they stop being themselves, it can be so dangerous.

At once i knew i was not magnificent.

Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.

You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship.

In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature.

The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.

Some people do have softer boundaries.

A career, like a business, must be budgeted. When it is necessary, the budget can be adjusted to meet changing conditions. A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me.