I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We all want them to think, hopefully..

We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do ….

I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipat….

I understand what's going on in people's minds, and I think the political leaders better be asking themselves 'why is it, that Donald Trump, Ted Cruz….

Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people thin….

The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely bec….

I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference..

It's going to have to come to a point where politicians in their own political self-interest think it's safe and advantageous to come out on the side….

Are you some kind of mutant human? Like a fire user? And I use mutant as a compliment, you know. I wouldn’t think less of you..

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history o….

Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into….

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere..

Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands..

I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at ….

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer..

I'd meet a new filmmaker that I'd always loved, and I'd think, "Great! I'm in the right place." It's a weird way to look at it, but I don't care as l….

I think the best things happen when you just let go and see what comes in. I find that that's always the most satisfying..

I think some guys have the ability to learn from themselves and get better. Those are the guys that last a long time and continue to improve in this ….

None of it seems real. Who knows? Maybe it isn’t. Maybe it’s actually happening to someone else. Maybe it’s something I imagined. Maybe soon I’m goin….

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do..

I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly sustained periods of peace ….