Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

I am a part of all that I have met.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

The white flower of a blameless life.

That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.

My comedy is romanticized laziness.

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

Just balancing all the different projects, I mean I spent almost 10 years just doing Nasty Gal and I say "just" but that was a lot, and it's still a lot.

John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.