We are the hunters---and we are also the bait.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message.

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

I am the ocean we lived on for two months. I am empty. I am nothing.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can test how far you can really go.

I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.