I didn’t want to upset my loved ones, but I couldn’t carry this alone.

I’ve heard that sometimes a version of you must die before another more enlightened version can be born. I think that’s true after watching the corpse of myself walk around.

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

I have a decision to go, but I am not sure to choose which other prison on the earth.

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

The ultimate purpose of our life is to rejoin God in conscious participation of divinity.

Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.

Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening.

It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win.