Some people just want to be part of the story, even if it’s a story that’s completely fabricated.

You have more power than you think. Be careful what you do with it.

I don’t think you can just choose to believe in God. You either do or you don’t, and no matter what camp you’re in, it would take something life-changing to truly lead you into the other one.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

And we will lie down on the ground and have conversations with the grasses and the flowers.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1, 400 years.

Act as if you are the person you want to be.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.

I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.