Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas. I think he assumed this stuff flew under the radar.

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.

Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin.

Those who replace love in people’s life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit “pious”.

I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'

The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.