I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

It is at the time of spiritual wilderness experience that the devil begins to remind us about the past

It is the unknown that we thirst for. Curiosity that drives us... to learn. Not to hear, or to be told. But to see and feel, to experience.

Not learning by doing, but learning by risking.

the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin

So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

We're out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars.

When I first met with Kurt [Sutter], it was one of those moments where you feel everything is happening for a reason.