I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.

I’m always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical conclusions don’t satisfy. Monsters satisfy, absolutely.

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the fun is sucked away, the second is to enjoy it.

A little style is a good thing, but you can’t trust a person who won’t be ugly in front of you.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

People who move to New York always the same mistake. They can't see the place.

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.

The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

It's really building Air America that I'm focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.

I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.

Everything is already healed, except in the dream of illness. Let the illusion go, in exchange for peace.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come. (Moon Called)

Real humility does not depress you, but allows you to call intensely and brings us closer to Krishna.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.