A man who farts in bed . . . is a man who loves life.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

Thoughts have unique beauties you will never able to express it in words.

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

I had a dream that Connie Chung is doing a newscast about my death and they show a clip from Soap.

When people get hungry and desperate, things get ugly. And I'll tell you where it's really going to get ugly: crime is going to go to levels we've never seen before.

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.