When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page / so I could take my words with me

And all we are waiting for is something worth waiting for.

Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall.

Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.

If nobody quotes you, you haven't said a thing worth saying.

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

Absence of pain makes anything possible

Whether you're in bed or in court, everybody gets off.

At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.

Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.

You cannot run a scociety or cope with it’s problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time.

The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through.