Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

Fear is always death. Faith is life. Have faith and your victory is assured.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

But if anyone so much as threatened them because of what Kaia had once done, she would turn the Slumber Party Massacre into Blood, Bath and Beyond, a documentary by Kaia Skyhawk.

In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while.

I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.

When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.

And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you?

I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time.... I was born to be a dad.