If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.

The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

Time passes…..and a billion lives are affected in ways we’ll never know.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself

Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.

History is, as we know, written by the winners.