The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Never let the story beat you home.

Children believe what you promise. They are excited and expectant. Your nature must be like theirs: bold, daring, unafraid and eager to experience the victory God has already assured.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.

That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.