I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.

How uninteresting interesting things can become.

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

The grace of prayer is an act of seeking to communicate with divine power.

Secrets... Dexter a perfect example what... can happen with secrets.

When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were.

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a living at being an artist until Sundance.

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.