People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power, which is both warm and destructive. We're especially drawn to the power. Many of the images of technology are about making us more powerful, extending what we can do. Unfortunately, 95 percent of this is hype, because I think we're powerful without it.

When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.

There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.

I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.

I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one.