Well the truth is, everybody, when they die, leaves a void that cannot be filled.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

You'll probably die if you stay with me, ' he told me.'Then I'm dead either way, because I won't survive without you.

You cannot be a light to others or yourself, if you have dark intentions in your heart.

Goodbyes are sad, but they are temporary, because as hellos ends with goodbyes, so will goodbyes start with hellos.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

I had to fight so hard not to cry.

When I read the books, I imagined that the family of Ron Weasley was my family.

I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around.