My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of society in creative isolation. I don't quite understand the ascetic life or the private life or the monastic private life. But I definitely understand privacy's value.
Sufjan StevensLife is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.
Sufjan StevensAll the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.
Sufjan StevensI'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring.
Sufjan StevensI feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.
Sufjan Stevens