Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

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.

All four of us were young and undaunted and our smiles were so strong that it made me smile even then on the couch, with a kind of loss.

There is a saying in the medical profession 'Inside everytablet is a little bit of poison'. Avoid medications if you can.

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

How I hated the dark part of me that continually foretold of failure or futility.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.

It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.

I love my mom to death.