Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

Everything means nothing to me

I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

Sometimes while gazing at the night's sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us.

Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships.

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep. Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep. While the media elite declare what to think, I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink.

If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.