I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

The world is not always ours to understand.

I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper.

There are idiots in every crowd.

I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.

Enemies are created, not born.

Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

It hurts so good and I feel euphoric after . . . yoga people on a whole are super cool and everyone is there to work on their own thing.

Each man follows his own path - his own destiny, if you will. And only he is responsible for the choice.

Along our chosen paths, we all meet up with demons. We must meet them, and battle them, even when they are nothing but mist in the night.

To be honest, there is a tourists' trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.

It’s a waste of time to be bummed on something, considering the amount of time that we have in this world.

Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.

At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."

I am 100% there when I'm doing what I'm doing when I'm onstage and recording. I don't ever want to look back at any moment and say to myself that I felt uncomfortable with who I am.

The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag, Baldwin, Vidal, Mary McCarthy, Mailer.

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.