I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful.

I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.

People tell me I have the best job in the world, which is true, but I also work with some of the best people in the world.

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation.

You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.

All recurring joy is pain refined.

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.

I was a very, very establishment person prior to wanting to run.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull.

Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths.

I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.