"Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness."

“Oh, my gosh, thirty-eight hundred children are going to die tomorrow. What am I going to do to actually save some of them?”

Source : "The Intensity Gap". Interview with Kelefa Sanneh, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2014.

“To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of life”

Source : Sakyong Mipham (2013). “The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure”, p.10, Harmony

“Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.”

“Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.”

“I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That sounds really negative, but in conquering or achieving something. I think, as a child, I thought I had to be somebody else.”

“I don't like acting things; I like feeling things.”

“The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.”

Source : Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.13, The Museum of Modern Art

“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.”