People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

Society is better off with me in a gym.

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Distilling is such a strange and arcane art, still. Not quite a science yet, but when someone's making something weird, I like to know about it.

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

Part of the journey here on Earth is learning how to discipline ourselves to set aside all of the voices and get to that deep voice within.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

If you say my eyes are beautiful, it's because they are looking at you.