I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.

Sometimes I'll go out to say hi to people, and I'm just not ready for it. It feels too weird, too intense.

Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing.

It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people.

What I'm confessing is that I've grown to a point where I feel like I should have more answers, and I don't. And I still think that applies in the George Saunders stuff.

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back, what was on my mind at the time.

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then sort of lose my footing with it.

God continue to rescue us from mortal sufferings.

God’s provision is timely.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.

Now, the old man happened to be the Lord.

For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.

Hiding our true thoughts and feelings is just one example of how we give our power away.

One day you will come to Montauk and see your dad playing the piano And see your other dad wearing glasses Hope that you will want to stay for a while Don't worry I know you'll have to go

Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.

It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.