“In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.”

“and let me remember that my courage is a wild dog; it won’t just come when I call it, I have to chase it down and hold on as tight as I can.”

“Isn’t it amazing, amazing, amazing that something so specific can be so resonant? These are the filaments, filaments, filaments from that Walt Whitman poem. It makes me think that the thoughts that I have in my head that make me feel the most lonely because I don’t think anyone else thinks them, are also the thoughts that have the most potential that make me feel connected. I just have to get them out some how gossamer thread.”

“Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.”

“Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.”

“Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?”

“John had dreamed so long and hard of this place that he had hoped it right out of existence. Probably no place in the world could withstand such an assault of human wishing.”