Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.

Together we are better

Men fear silence as they fear solitude because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

Every time a woman runs, women win.

I try to surf everyday or at least go for a walk on the beach if the waves are flat. The more I travel, the more I appreciate where I live and the ocean.

I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

Treat your life like a game.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?