..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.

You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.

Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean it can't still suck me in.

I will be stronger than my sadness.

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win.

He can't make me love him when he's going to leave me.

Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.

Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.

Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock.

Do you believe in other universes? Do you think there's another dimension where we're happy?

I can feel everything. And I want to keep feeling everything. Even the painful, awful, terrible things. Because feeling things is what lets us know that we're alive.

What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.

The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

The important thing is to be drunk.

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.

Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what your story is about.

Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.