But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.

You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.

I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.