I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?

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.

The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have.

Life is hard, Should you be too?

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week." "And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized. He grinned and touched his can to mine.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.