I'm looking over rooftops, and I'm hoping it ain't true, that the same God looks out for them, looks out for me and you.

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

Fear only has as much power as we give it space.

Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone

Around mile 20 I was feeling so good, I wanted to kiss everyone.

God can give or take away, Well who would make such an awful rule.

The repulsive actions of the person who abused you do not identify you.

But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, insomnia, and constriction of the throat.

And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me.

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

I think corporate managers should learn to be better investors because it would make them better managers.

People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

[Hollywood] is obviously so fake, but then comedy is this little carve-out of sincerity. I love it. I get to be funny and do this.

My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.