Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?

A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse.So much worse, Mom said.But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't.You did so good, Mom said.Did beautiful, Dad said.

Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.

Is this the baby?" I said.Ma turned on me again."What do you think it is?" she said. "A midget that can't talk?

The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven.

Why can't one live a life of disappearing?An invisible man- the real superman.

I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.

Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.

The next day, we shot 'I Want You Back,' and that was a 14-hour day. That's typical. By the end of the day, my knees and ankles are killing me.

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

An unguarded strength is a double weakness.

The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.

I think I'm a lot happier than people might think from listening to my songs.