I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

F*ck you guys, I'm goin' home.

The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.

We are on a mission to win the hearts and minds of our employees.

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

I don't want people to see me - I want them to see Jesus.

The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.

Getting to communicate with many people through our shows was just great in itself and I felt a lot of energy. I think I learned what love is through our concert.

I'm a white guy listening to the Cure and thinking about Pynchon influences.

Whatever is going to happen is already happening.

I'd say he's done more than that.