I learned to live in my own head. I learned to follow intuition and more than anything, I learned what was important to me.

The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.

I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of me.

I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.

I was always face to face with total futility and powerlessness.

For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

Go ahead and do what you're doing.

If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of stance from the outside of that world to disagree.

Smile to be a flower of joy.

Go forward and achieve your God-given goals.

To realize truth, you must cross all boundaries of all religions and all prophets

If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer.

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.