Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

Bring it, Darth Bathrobe!

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

You ask me why I write. You might as well ask me why I breathe. I need oxygen to feed my body and ink to feed my soul.

The truth is that America has been closely divided politically for quite some time. That was reflected in some of the challenges I had with the Republican Congress.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

Learn all the rules... then break them.

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.

I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if I might love.