It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.
There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.
If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.
I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.
You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness. . . has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.
In time we hate that which we often fear.
The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.