I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Inside the human mind, an idea is a mental spark that occurs as a response to the challenge of a train of thought.

If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition.

Think about what is in front of you, if you must think.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible.

I want to sell tracks but at the same time I want to stay true to the music I like. This is why I love the underground scene because they can stay true to what they want to do.

Three bloody roles, Scrum has, and only three. If you can’t get that right, don’t call it Scrum, OK?