Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.