Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).

The most significant way you can edify another person is to see them accurately as the same as you, listen to them, and honor their right to their own thoughts and feelings.

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.

The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them.

Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?" Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens