The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Some journeys can only be traveled alone.

Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.

i been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i'll be here.

I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,' - Magnus Bane

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.