Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

The desire to win a war is expensive, but the desire to win with wisdom is wise.

There's always hope. And oceans. Hope and oceans.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.

A thought, once uttered, is untrue

I didn't have any intention of releasing any of the tracks I made.

I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.

I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.

No bill works if it doesn't work in a zip code where somebody lives.