I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

Everything means nothing to me

I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

Sad story always end up with a happy ending. Wrong choices end up with a lesson as your tool in life.

Human welfare depends on healthy ecosystems.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change.

There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.

I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.