I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

the rain in this room is low and thickand undressing my heart through the air. – intimacy

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

I live my life in faith as I explore and challenge myself and others.

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I "step aside" as CEO of GM, and so I have.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.

I am Congress; I'm president.

Your capacity to love is your capacity to experience the I of another.