She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.
I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.
I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.
I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved
I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.
The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine. '
I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?
I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.