When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it's something you do.

Don't dim magic because there are non believers, let it shine out of you and they won't know how to look away.

We will know which stars to visit. Our descendants will then skim the light years, the children of Thales and Aristarchus, Leonardo and Einstein.

Life and death is a matter of destiny, just like day and night is the law of the universe. Chuang Tzu

How young can you die of old age?

I love to cry. It's such a great release. If I'm just tired - jetlagged, I didn't get any sleep, I want to cry. I think it's important to cry.

I travel all the time. I'm very restless you know.

I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.