A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

Love is indiscriminate in the path it takes to find you.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

Inspiration comes from doing.

I would love to work with Tom Hardy. Maybe do something crazy or dramatic that is different for me.

As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.