Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.

No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

Gratitude isn’t innate. It’s a habit that has to be learned through practice.

I am emotional about engines, if you hurt my car, you hurt my heart.

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.

Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

There's nothing better for a comedian than adversity.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing.