“Sounds kind of long-term to me. Just how far ahead do you think?”

“Snap your fingers and somebody runs / You don't care how they feel just as long as they come / Got your head in the stars now you've come this far / Just who do you think you are?”

“You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”

“How beautiful you must be
to have been able to lead me
this far with only
the sound of your going away”

“Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.”

“Ask not how long the term you will serve, but ask what meaningful things you will do during your tenure.”

“If you think about how you sound on the radio while you are on the radio, you will fuck up how you sound on the radio.”

“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,
And accrue what I hear into myself… and let sound contribute toward me.”

“When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke”

“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”