I didn’t mean to fall in love with you, but I did.- Chelsea

I was wrong.Now that I think about it, if I had said those words to a now-ex back in my twenties, I would probably be married right now.

You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.

she ran away in her sleep and dreamed of paradise

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, keep writing, and then new things come up.

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.