A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing.

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

What do you think about America?""Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.

What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue?

When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.

When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don't change.

...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?

It’s a long story. I’ll make it short as I can.

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

When you see somebody actually be able to channel that into an accessible, beautiful tool, you start to see the craftsman behind it.

The noble man is only God's image.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

A lot of these "reality shows" do a lot of producing scenes and producing things and drama and all that but we did the deal contingent that we wouldn't do that.

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

I pride myself in taking care of my mind, body and soul, and not just through exercise.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.