Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like, "Yes, we get to go somewhere!" Go somewhere faster, with their head out the window, and their ears, like, "Yes! Yes!"

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.