"I think with each record, I don't know ... they're like burdens."

“It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.”

“I am not especially good at remembering the actualities of the world I inhabit, but I have pretty strong associative memories of how it feels to live in that world, and to wonder at its weird machinations, at any age.”

Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 15)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. September 10, 2013.

“Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.”

“It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.”

“But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind ...”

“Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.”

“I have a new little stray dog that I've had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk - he's this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard.”

Source : "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Krysten Ritter". Interview with Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. March 27, 2012.

“My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.”