The sudden, painful flare of envy caught me by surprise. I was a loner, my last few years in school. I could have done with a friend like that.

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

Interesting fact from the front lines: raw grief smells like ripped leaves and splintered branches, a jagged green shriek.

You don’t need to provide your parents with a “success story” to share at gatherings.

What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed.

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

We have no solution... You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads.

If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?

There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.