The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over, love being the new black, and compassion going viral.

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.

Until I truly loved, I was alone.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words long. Only when the text is finished ... do I begin the pictures.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.

Whenever I call a company and get put on hold, I never really feel like I'm being held.

Every single record I make is an act of faith in a sense, and somewhere I also have faith that the people who need to hear my music somehow will.