"Unlike rational thought, intuition cannot be 'taught' or even turned on. In fact, it is impossible to find or manipulate this intuitive consciousness using our rational mind—any more than we can grasp our own hand or see our own eye."

“Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone”

“"Jogging Gorgeous Summer" song was inspired by a general feeling of sunshine, feeling good, sitting in the backseat of a car and hearing a song for the first time on the radio and feeling warm. I went back to the house I grew up in, and the people let me in to walk around. I went into my sister's old bedroom, and on the window ledge there was this little handwriting from my sister, and it said, "Jogging Gorgeous Summer." I thought that was a really pretty phrase.”

“However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.”

“A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

“Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.”

“And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.”

“Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”