Sometimes I'll go out to say hi to people, and I'm just not ready for it. It feels too weird, too intense.

Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing.

I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.

It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people.

What I'm confessing is that I've grown to a point where I feel like I should have more answers, and I don't. And I still think that applies in the George Saunders stuff.

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back, what was on my mind at the time.

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then sort of lose my footing with it.

Sometimes, all you want is a warm loving embrace.. and no words..

. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

Stress is a signal that something needs to change. Suffering, is when we don't make the change!

It is important that both Japan and the United States continue to invest very heavily in the alliance to build up our defense.

The church is something beautiful

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth.

There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.