"Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating. Nothing stood the test of time, including me. Somewhere on the other shore were madness and God, sometimes both wearing a beard. Neither instilled much confidence."

“The remarkable thing about Hitler was his talent for dissimulation. His formidable abilities as an actor are often overlooked. There are only very rarely situations where we can say he was being genuine.”

“TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.”

“Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.”

“I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.”

Source : "Dean Ween of Ween". Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. October 31, 2007.

“Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?”

“Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.”

“I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.”

Source : "Go Forth". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. December 17, 2013.

“Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?”