A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

No matter how old you get if you can keep the desire to be creative you're keeping the man-child alive.

We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.

I can't say I'm never going to mess up, but if I do, I'll definitely be very sorry.

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

He (God) is not looking for smart people, because He is the smart one. All he wants are people simple enough to trust him.

When your best players are really good guys, it's the best.

China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants.