To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.