“Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.”

“I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.”

“I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.”

“I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.”

“I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.”

“Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”

“Keesha looked at me for a long time. "I did leave you alone. We all did. But you didn't get better. You didn't stop. You're still doin' all your weird shit. And I think it's time to stop.""You thin...”