I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.

You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

...You know what I mean?

Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.

I think that's the most important thing: when life kind of screws you over a little bit, you've got to learn from that experience.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.

You're gonna get thrown curve balls left and right, and that's just the way it goes.

This is to the world and how god damn beautiful it is.

I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness

I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.

It's quite normal to hear of a change and see it as a problem, but it's probably an opportunity, depending on how quickly you can adjust.

America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life's been blessed by both.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

My problems aren't so different from anybody else.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.