Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

My mama didn't raise any fools and she didn't raise any heroes.

Being bipolar and an addict and an alcoholic I have to keep myself very busy. I don't sleep. I am lucky if I get three hours of sleep a night, and so I get up, and my head is full of slamming doors.

The landscapist lives in silence.

In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.

You know you’re permanent, right?

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.