When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you.

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

I don't drink anymore. That's a huge - that's a massive - difference in my life. It's made a huge change in my touring.

This is our moment. This is our destiny. It's a good destiny

I'm very eclectic in terms of what I like, what I read, what I watch, my own consumer behavior.

Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."