Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

He grinned, a very dark and evil grin… the kind of grin that the Grinch had before he stole Christmas.

It was duck apocalypse!

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt, ' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.