I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

I live in one of the best places, bar none, to appreciate the wild natural environment. I also live in one of the most politically difficult places to work on its behalf: Alaska.

You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

I am an advocate of honesty and openness, and I think deceit is a dangerous seed to plant and let grow in relationships.

It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

Power is everywhere when you can see it and find it. It is nowhere when you can't.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

I was like, you know, if you want to be someone big, you have to dress the part.

You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.