Fear is a ... it's a weird thing, when you think about it. People are only afraid of other things, they're never afraid of themselves.

Ready...set-y...spaghetti!

Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love.

I love talking to people and hearing their stories. Everyone's got their own story to tell, and when you sit down with someone and really talk to them, you can learn so much.

It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

If I'm going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained.

I am stronger than my trials.

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.

I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.

Never get vengeance and justice mixed up.

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

Where you live in the United States shouldn't determine how long and how healthy you live - but it does, far more than it should.