"I am only known for my boobs and tats."

“Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?”

Source : FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from Jan 07, 2015

“Everyone else is either asleep or having sex.  I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.”

“Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.”

“It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a militant atheism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.”

“I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?”

“I'm a jerk, that's who I am. I'm like everybody else.”

“Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.”

“There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.”

Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.