Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

To know God, know your heart (conscience). After you know your heart, you will learn to see God in all things. Truth can only be seen by those with Truth in them.

Don’t be afraid to make people mad. Your honesty will inspire your true followers. I piss off tons of people every day.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film.

The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.

If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi

Laughing at our friends, we avenge the disappointment they have caused.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.