Our past doesn’t define us, rather, it’s the courses we take after that tells us who we really are.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.

Sometimes when I watch a TV season, your favorite shows die quickly. And then sometimes it's not your favorite, and they live on for 12 years.

If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.

Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.