Who are the real monsters?

And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we’ll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.

Im here and he’s not. That I’m alive and he’s…

I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. This—this—this is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run.

What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.

Greatness is the amount of time you were able to invest into cultivating your ground.

We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

Pleasure and business, unlike oil and water, can sometimes be mixed.

An army marches on its stomach.

The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.

An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.

I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

I saw A Little Romance [and] I was so in love with Laurence Olivier. I watched that movie over and over and just fell in love with love.

That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!

I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."