There's that whole thing that happens in relationships - you can love someone but, as soon as they stop loving you so unconditionally that they stop being themselves, it can be so dangerous.

The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind.

But in any situation with long love, I don’t think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.

At once i knew i was not magnificent.

Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.

I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.

You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship.

Your most precious memories will focus on those you loved, those who loved you, and what you did together in the service of the Lord.

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue. Us men are tired of losing our women.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.

You can never change what you don't confront and transform what you avoid.

Your happiness is a gift because it literally brings out the best in you.

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.