In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I'd ever been of anything or anyone in my life.

It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.

The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.

There is one thing you need to do to people who hate you for the way you are and what you do. What's that? The thing you do best. And that would be? Give them hell.

Soon we will be in heaven and that opportunity will be over, let us not regret that we could have loved the brethren more.

Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it, ' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position.

When I push, the top part of the leg goes ahead of the bottom part, and you can hear a big plonk when it comes back. My caddie said 'What the hell was that?!

Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Quick: try to think of a single movie about the horrors of Stalinism. This is not a failure of imagination. This is moral meltdown.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.