Your life informs your writing.

Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be

For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.

Even this is paradoxical because even though the ego does all the spiritual practice in the beginning, it’s the Truth that has orchestrated it all.

I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process [IPCC process] that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.

Dark money has turned our elections into auctions

We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.

If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.

Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.