His words were coated with glorious boredom

We each survive in our own way.

No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.

You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared.

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

I'm not married, ” he said softly, “because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.

He opened his mouth, but stopped as he beheld her smile. Though she had no regrets about her choice, she felt something strangely like disappointment when he said, "As you wish.

Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With my knives.

A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.

I like music, ' she said slowly, 'because when I hear it, I...I lose myself within myself if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once.

Do you wonder about eternal life?

I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.

You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you...

Extraordinary moments often involve a sense of connection, as well as communication, with something that we intuitively know goes well beyond this plane of reality.

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

Shawn Michaels has left the building.

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.