Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. It's in your soul.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

Who has never killed an hour?

The louder your “I can” the closer your “I've done it!

You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

We have the Internet of Everything but not the inclusion of everyone.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

I don't think there's such a thing as the greatest of all time or the greatest in the world.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

What's the point of beauty if it's only seen by one?