I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.

The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.

But in the end, I suppose, we only have one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

There’s no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.

In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.

My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.

I get emails from strangers every day asking for love advice, which is kind of counter-intuitive since I'm making a movie about what an idiot I am with relationships.

I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.

The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.

On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

There is something you can do that nobody else can do

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!

The dead are practical.

If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

What you wouldn't have suspected lives & trembles in the air. Those treasures of the day you keep just out of reach. These come & go in truckloads but no one stops to see them.

When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.

You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right.

I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they possess.

My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.