I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Shrews are made, not born.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind

Love me, that's all I ask of you...

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

It isn't how long you stick around but what you put over while you are here.

I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.

If I spend 100 days in a row making music there’s a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it’s guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.

In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.

The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce.