I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

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.

some see things as they are: others as they are” (p.82) ~CXCI

Acceptance is a conscious choice to receive your spouse as God made him or her.

Some say it is better to have eaten and lost than never to have eaten at all.

Principles become modified in practise by facts.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.

I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.

Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).