I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.

Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.

I know that I was conscious of all the aspects of the war, having had cousins who were in the army, who would send me notes and memorabilia. I began to collect things that they would send me.

We must learn from history, there is no military solution for the Kashmir issue...we have to understand this reality.

If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.

I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

We are all bastards but God loves us anyway.