Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo, and I look at these things oddly, in my dream. I stand and think, "What is all this for? What is the hunger that drives this need?" I think it's fear. Codi, I hope you won't be hurt by this, but I don't think I'll ever be going back. I don't think I can.

One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.