My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets.

She hates her heart, that misguided organ in her chest. Why didn't it warn her?

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything

There is more inside you than you dare think.

Depression starts slow.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

Try again. Fail again. Try better.

I never had a connection like that to anyone, where every day you think about what you’ll tell them and you wonder what they’re doing, and you know they’re wondering what you’re doing.

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!