Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Do life soaring

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

You never seem to hear about psychic occult attack in spiritual literature. This knowledge has been conveniently forgotten.

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.

We think everyone but us need the unadulterated truth.

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.