“I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter.”

“Sometimes your music sounds like theres too much inside you. Maybe even you couldnt get it all out. Maybe thats why you died. Like you exploded from the inside.”

“I dont know anyone who has a perfect family to start with. And I think thats why we make up our own. regular weirdos together. I feel that way about my friends.”

“People love you for what they want to see in you, not for what you are. That's a sad thing to learn.”

“Words can't be wood enough for a lot of things. But you know, I guess we have to try.”

“If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meaning of either?”

“We all have the same root, and are connected...To tap into this connectedness we must go within.”

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”

“I'd rather be on the ground than underTo feel the heavy rain and the thunder.”