All good books are about everything, abbreviated.

I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.

I love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming.

You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you.

History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.

There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again.

The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

I don't believe in dieting.

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.