My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.