We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone..

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints..

If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way..

The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another..

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended..

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking..

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that….

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be….

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening..

Language is a nice way to remember things..

It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable diffe….

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth..

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is..

Anorexics never have boyfriends. ... That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend..

If you ask me about music and how things should be played, I believe that music-making is the combination of having learned how to do something right….

I don't intentionally make deep movies..

People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music..

The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way..

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality..

Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead..

Life is not supposed to be easy. Stop working so hard to make it that way. Go ahead and handle it!.