Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Your potential in this world is timeless

This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Humans find meaningfulness where none exists because we want to create a sense of order in this chaotic universe. It's called apophenia. (And it's also the reason people believe in God.)

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.

As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.