Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.

My heart is a blooming rose of self-love.

You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage.

There are 2 types of people on face the difficulty, :1 - Damn it!2 - Challenge accepted!

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

Rarely, I think, do you find a relationship where you can experience things equally.

I don't have a car." His eyes sliced into mine. "I walked here," I explained. "I'm on foot." "Angel," he said in a way that sounded like he sincerely hoped I was joking.

My mother never let on that anything was wrong. She kept her chin up and acted as if everything were just fine. So we did too.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make your soul soar.

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.