“If you love your dad, its tough when he dies. If you dont like your dad, its tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didnt get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.”

“That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.”

“I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.”

“I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.”

“I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.”

“I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'”

“Words are wind.”

“Words are wind, and the wind from Manderly's mouth means no more than the wind escaping his bottom.”

“I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.”

“At the end of the day the only thing that stays are your words. They linger while you disappear. Hanging in the air like they're on a clothesline, oh how I wish I could let them go.”

“Only wise men look for new wisdom.”

“This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it i...”

“Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.”

“If we occupy our minds with self-loathing or negative thoughts, then maybe we dont have enough to do.”

“The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.”