Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

Only a madman would give good for evil

Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.

I think we all remember where we were when Rush Hour hit the water. That was an important day.

The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.

I don't see myself stopping, even though it gets harder and harder. Especially when you find out that you can't really compromise because of age.

Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of.

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.