I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

When AIDS emergency broke out and was killing millions in Africa, the Global Fund was created so that a level of generosity would show up and buy the medicines to save those lives.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

You gotta say what you say, Don't let anybody get in your way...

For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.

Don't tell me the sky's the limit.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print