(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

But sometimes it's like you just meet someone and you just know that you're totally connected, and this person is, like, your brother - or your sister. Even if they don't, like, recognize it, you feel it. And in a lot of ways it don't matter if they do or they don't see that for what it is - all you can do is put the feeling out there. That's your duty. Then you just wait and see what comes back to you. That's the deal.