To Americans, either/or means both.

Dreams don't come true, they are true.

If you see me standing on my head, I'm trying to cheer you up with my frown. I need my honesty, you my pleasantry.

Fifty percent of life is ninety percent indecisive. The rest is confusing.

Where have you been all of your life?

Kindness knows no kind.

If you want to commit suicide why tell anyone? They'd ruin everything.

Babies are never suicidal. Hard lives, not hard boiled eggs do that.

There's an ad for every vice. That's advice.

The brain is unreliable. It relies on lies.

It's not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me.

Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters.

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

I have too much energy, even for myself. I'm lucky to have something that focuses me.

People are seeing me as the guy who wants to get hurt, who wants to break a bone, get bruises. And that's how it was growing up with six brothers. I got beat up, and I beat up people.

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.