I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

It’s true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It’s a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.

Anything that needlessly robs you of your time, energy, and other precious resources is destructive to you and your leadership.

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

I don't think anything lives up to what you envisioned.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring which opens the door.

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.

If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.