There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.

The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and often acted impulsively, but this had been intense and ugly even for me. Weird.

It is over, the Reich walls have collapsed, my generals have betrayed me and my army refuses to fight, this is the herr Doernitz! I only hope you can turn this around.

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.

The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business.

with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice.

Can you stand a little closer?" "Hmm?" "You smell good. I like to smell you.

driving at the speed limit--hideous thought.