"The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard."

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“In the particular is contained the universal.”
“I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's private lives are just so much more bizarre and Ted Haggard-like than you could ever imagine. It's almost hard to write fiction anymore.”
“We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.”
“I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.”
“The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.”
“God, I want to die in you.”
“I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.”
“This life is temporary, this body is temporary, but while I'm here I want to get as much out of it as I can”

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