You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin.

It is a lonely thing, remembering for someone else.

To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of th'harmonious frame.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

Faith means that you have peace even when you dont have all the answers.

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.

Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.

I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.