Albert Brooks Quotes

'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.

When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

I don't know why I write what I write.

I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

Fatherhood changed me as a musician.

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer