I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that’s where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.

If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief systems will make more sense and end up causing less suffering.