There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.

You can never have too much, butter.

If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.

Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

Fame comes and goes

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.

I wish I weren’t reeling at all.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

When he smiled, something strange happened to my insides. It was like they turned to liquid.

If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.