I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

I haven't seen a bear in person. I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.

Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet.

Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors.

Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience

I met BSB at a benefit gig we were both doing, and they are really humble, nice guys - and very hard working