The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.

One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.