There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met

I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.

My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.

I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?