A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator.

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

Mothers aren't allowed to have favorite children!

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

It's got to be better than rooming with Joe Page.

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

I find that in letters you can make things whatever you wish them to be.

Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.

No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.