Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.

Like a dog defeated in a frenzied circle by its own tail and slowing and realizing then that the tail it was after all along was already its possession

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing.

There’s no mystery to integrity. There’s no mystery to oneness. When there is a core-splitting honesty, right there, awareness knows.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.