When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.

Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.

Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.