And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

Children see magic because they look for it.

He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case — is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

Nobody's perfect... Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.

I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

So hey, once Joshua heals your brother, you want to go do something, get some pomegranate juice, a falafel,or get married or something?

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

Keep a spur handy.

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

Sometimes in the studio movies I've been working in, you'll put a joke in a movie because the crowd loves it - not because I love it.

Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting elected as a Republican today.

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

I am convinced that God Himself is tampering with the economic system of the world to reduce us back to Him.

We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.

When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.