Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.

As if each of us might somehow have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.

A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?

Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.

The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.

This is what I’ve always loved about a city, all the worlds hidden away inside, largest of aquariums.

The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.

Photons have neither morals nor visas.

Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.