Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing.

What do you think about America?""Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.

What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue?

When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.

When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don't change.

...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?

Til shade is gone, til water is goneInto the shadow with teeth baredScreaming defiance with the last breathTo spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.

She wasn't easy to be around at the best of times, and during the worst, well, she sucked flaming balls of mean...Still she wanted his eternal admiration.

It is not so much being all that you dream of becoming as it is un-becoming all that is covering your being.

Call on God. He will answer.

…one lives and analyses data within a frame, unaware that the solution is most often just outside of that frame. Never underestimate the depth of your subjectivity.

Open your eyes and see how many gifts there are to unwrap. Notice the presence of your presents. It’s not your life that is disappointing: it’s your mind.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.

Slavery can never be abolished.

I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.