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Its a great day for hockey

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

I'm flying everywhere in my private jet.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

If death turned out to be a lack of being rather than a lack of consciousness, well, then, that sucked.

Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.

I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love.

There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.