It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

It's not my fault that people are perverts.

Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

Your assignment must at least better the lives of people around you and the world at large.

When will you open your eyes to the possibility of the world?

When we turn life’s little pleasures into remedies for life’s troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push God aside.

Depression means that you have no point of view.

I will jump into most any role.

I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

The German chancellor said that our president lives in a different world. I believe he lives in a very real world.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

I think that you only occasionally have to play evil because everything you're doing is.